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Learning Nagios 3.0

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Learning Nagios 3.0

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Learning Nagios 3.0
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface

Managing Downtimes


Nagios allows you to use the web interface to manage scheduled downtimes for hosts and services. This includes listing, adding, and deleting downtimes for both hosts and services.

Downtimes Status

Nagios's web interface allows you to list all scheduled downtimes. This page can be accessed by clicking on the Downtime link on the left-side menu. The following is an example of this page:

The page consists of two pages, which all scheduled downtimes, separately for hosts and services. You can delete a downtime by clicking the 'trash' icon on the right in the row that describes that particular downtime entry.

Downtimes can be triggered by other downtimes. When a host downtime is scheduled, Nagios automatically adds downtimes for all child hosts. For example, in the current configuration, if host router has a downtime scheduled, then router-aster will also have the same downtime as it will be unreachable during this period. Such downtimes are indicated by the Downtime ID and...