Re: Planned Downtime

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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 <address@hidden> 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 <address@hidden> 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?
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>> 
>> 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 * * *"
>> 
>> 
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>> Paul Theodoropoulos
>> www.anastrophe.com
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