request for flexible downtime feature

[dmitriykulishenko]

is there any way to do a flexible downtime?

[hakong]

What do you mean? Could you give an example of how this would work?

[dmitriykulishenko]

according to nagios documentation:
"Flexible" downtime is intended for times when you know that a host or service is going to be down for X minutes (or hours), but you don't know exactly when that'll start. When you schedule flexible downtime, Nagios will start the scheduled downtime sometime between the start and end times you specified. The downtime will last for as long as the duration you specified when you scheduled the downtime. This assumes that the host or service for which you scheduled flexible downtime either goes down (or becomes unreachable) or goes into a non-OK state sometime between the start and end times you specified. The time at which a host or service transitions to a problem state determines the time at which Nagios actually starts the downtime. The downtime will then last for the duration you specified, even if the host or service recovers before the downtime expires. This is done for a very good reason. As we all know, you might think you've got a problem fixed, but then have to restart a server ten times before it actually works right.

https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagioscore/docs/nagioscore/3/en/downtime.html

[hakong]

Ah, I see. Didn't know about this feature.
I'm not maintaining this project so I can't comment on this. @palli @tomas-edwardsson and @gardart can maybe, although I doubt it'll be implemented.