Re: [Nagios-users] skip monitoring every 4 weeks
Hi Assaf, I have a situation where i need to turn of monitoring for server while they are being rebooted , this is done during the weekend , and the person doing the reboots is not one that has access to the nagios . why don't you specify downtimes? For those hosts? This can be done in advance. HTH, cu l8r, Edgar. -- |\ /| :: Addr: Valid Eindhoven B.V. / | \/ | : Edgar R. Matzinger : t.a.v. E.R. Matzinger / || :: Paradijslaan 36 \ /| /\| :: 5611 KN Eindhoven \/ / \ : Valid Eindhoven BV : \ /\ / :: \/ |\/ :: |:: Disclaimer: Any comments, opinions made are mine, etc ... -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] skip monitoring every 4 weeks
Assaf Flatto wrote:
Hello
I have a situation where i need to turn of monitoring for server while they
are being rebooted ,
this is done during the weekend , and the person doing the reboots is not one
that has access to
the nagios .
i know that Version 3 placed the functionality of alternating and dynamic
scheduling in the
timeperiods definitions , but after reading the online documentation , i'm
not realy clear on ho i
can achieve my gaol.
I need the monitoring for a server to be stopped during a period (specific
times TBD ) every 4th
weekend , (Sunday or Saturday , again yet to be determined ).
I understand that I need to define a time period and add an exclude to the
time period the host
in question has defined .
My issue is with the correct format of the skipped timeperiod .
Is what I'm defining below correct in format and functionality - if not in
strict content ?
define timeperiod{
timeperiod_name weekend-off
Sunday /28 00:00-24:00
}
I'm not 100% sure, but I *think* you want to use
Sunday -1 00:00-24:00
if you mean last sunday of the month.
define timeperiod{
timeperiod_name box-reboot
use 24x7
exclude offweekend
}
The rest looks good though.
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Re: [Nagios-users] skip monitoring every 4 weeks
On Thursday 29 January 2009 13:41:46 Edgar Matzinger wrote: Hi Assaf, I have a situation where i need to turn of monitoring for server while they are being rebooted , this is done during the weekend , and the person doing the reboots is not one that has access to the nagios . why don't you specify downtimes? For those hosts? This can be done in advance. HTH, cu l8r, Edgar. Cause the whole idea is to make it automatic and dynamic and not to find out after the weekend that we forgot to set the scheduled down time in the nagios . and as i said - it is not every weekend, but once in 4 weeks. Assaf -- Assaf Flatto SSP Ops Team Linux System Administrator 169 Euston Road, London, NW1 2AE IMPORTANT . this email and the information in it may be confidential, legally privileged and/or protected by law. It is intended solely for the use of the person to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to any other person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the information in any medium. Please also delete all copies of this email and any attachments from your system. We cannot guarantee the security or confidentiality of email communications. We do not accept any liability for losses or damages that you may suffer as a result of your receipt of this email including but not limited to computer service or system failure, access delays or interruption, data non-delivery or mis-delivery, computer viruses or other harmful components. Copyright in this email and any attachments belong to Select Service Partner UK Limited. Should you communicate with anyone at Select Service Partner UK Limited by email, you consent to us monitoring and reading any such correspondence. Nothing in this email shall be taken or read as suggesting, proposing or relating to any agreement concerted practice or other practice that could infringe UK or EC competition legislation. Select Service Partner UK Limited is a company registered in England and Wales (company number 05687183) whose registered office is at 1 The Heights, Brooklands, Weybridge. Surrey. KT13 0NY -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] skip monitoring every 4 weeks
What you are describing is, in more generic terms, a maintenance window.
I'm actually using a very different approach for the same basic problem:
I schedule downtime for that maintenance window. Now Nagios doesn't
support recurring scheduled downtimes directly. The solution is a script
(this one has hardcoded 2 hours scheduled downtime - change as needed).
#!/bin/bash
# schedules downtime for the host given in $1
now=$(date +%s)
read host
read comment
# the host may need to be capitalized. To find the correct version,
parse the Nagios config files:
fixed_host=$(grep -ri host_name.*$host /etc/nagios/objects | uniq |
awk '{ print $3; }')
NAGIOSCMD=[$now]
SCHEDULE_AND_PROPAGATE_TRIGGERED_HOST_DOWNTIME;$fixed_host;$now;$(($now+7200));1;0;7200;Kevin
Keane;$comment
echo -e $NAGIOSCMD \n /var/spool/nagios/nagios.cmd
In my case, the backup script also calls this one. You may instead want
to use cron, or you could invoke it from a shutdown script in the server
being rebooted, remotely via ssh.
Assaf Flatto wrote:
Hello
I have a situation where i need to turn of monitoring for server while they
are being rebooted ,
this is done during the weekend , and the person doing the reboots is not one
that has access to
the nagios .
i know that Version 3 placed the functionality of alternating and dynamic
scheduling in the
timeperiods definitions , but after reading the online documentation , i'm
not realy clear on ho i
can achieve my gaol.
I need the monitoring for a server to be stopped during a period (specific
times TBD ) every 4th
weekend , (Sunday or Saturday , again yet to be determined ).
I understand that I need to define a time period and add an exclude to the
time period the host
in question has defined .
My issue is with the correct format of the skipped timeperiod .
Is what I'm defining below correct in format and functionality - if not in
strict content ?
define timeperiod{
timeperiod_name weekend-off
Sunday /28 00:00-24:00
}
define timeperiod{
timeperiod_name box-reboot
use 24x7
exclude offweekend
}
Thanks
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