https://nagios02.slac.stanford.edu/
Acknowledging Alerts
By acknowledging an alert for a host or service, you can keep nagios from sending out notifications for the problem (although it will continue to probe the host/service).
Alerts are acknowledged from the command-line via remctl. remctl is a Kerberos-based client-server protocol that provides authenticated per-user/principle access to specific backend commands; in this case, the back end is a locally-maintained script that allows users to interact with nagios directly. This generally works as so:
This generally works as so:
# Acknowledge an alert; stop sending emails remctl -p 46157 nagios02.slac.stanford.edu nagios ack host HOSTNAME COMMENT remctl -p 46157 nagios02.slac.stanford.edu nagios ack service HOSTNAME SERVICENAME COMMENT # Pre-emptively mark a host/service as down, don't contact for a while remctl -p 46157 nagios02.slac.stanford.edu nagios downtime host HOSTNAME HOURS COMMENT remctl -p 46157 nagios02.slac.stanford.edu nagios downtime service HOSTNAME SERVICENAME HOURS COMMENT # Tell nagios to run the check for this host/service in MINUTES minutes remctl -p 46157 nagios02.slac.stanford.edu nagios schedule host HOSTNAME MINUTES COMMENT remctl -p 46157 nagios02.slac.stanford.edu nagios schedule service HOSTNAME SERVICENAME MINUTES COMMENT # Help documents and man pages remctl -p 46157 nagios02.slac.stanford.edu nagios help remctl -p 46157 nagios02.slac.stanford.edu nagios man