You can use the M/Monit HTTP-API to switch the host status to "ignored" before the planned downtime starts and back to "active" when it stops ... see the /admin/hosts/update method for details:
https://mmonit.com/documentation/http-api/Methods/Admin_Hosts Example of simple script: https://mmonit.com/documentation/http-api/Examples/cURL Best regards, Martin > On 18 Jul 2017, at 08:38, Allen Wyma <al...@finfabrik.com> wrote: > > Sounds good, but this is in regards to M/Monit. Problem is we lose connection > to the M/Monit instance and M/Monit complains: > > No report from Monit for 16 seconds: the network, the host or Monit is down. > Last report was 18 Jul 2017 06:40:29 +0800 >> On 18 Jul 2017, at 1:28 AM, Paul Theodoropoulos <p...@anastrophe.com> wrote: >> >> On 7/17/17 3:31 AM, Allen Wyma wrote: >>> We do a daily backup of our VMs, and I’m curious if there’s a way to do a >>> planned downtime for the hosts everyday say from 5am until 5:30 or >>> something like that. Or would it just be easier to just cronjob turn off >>> and on my M/Monit instance? >>> -- >>> To unsubscribe: >>> https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monit-general >> >> monit has pseudo-cron capabilities. >> >> # check some.application on db1 >> check program some.application.monitor >> with path /usr/local/bin/check_application_wrapper >> not every "00-30 05 * * *" >> >> >> -- >> Paul Theodoropoulos >> www.anastrophe.com >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe: >> https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monit-general > > -- > To unsubscribe: > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monit-general -- To unsubscribe: https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monit-general