Disable notification for services using folders

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Hi community,

we need to disable notification automatically for specific services (with wildcard names like Interface XX) depending on in which folder the host is placed in.

Is there a way to do that or anything comparable?

Thanks in advance.

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Please take a look at Host&Service Paramters section Notification rule Enable/disable notifications for services if it suites your requirements.

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I’m not sure if what tosch wrote will suit you. What you can do is create a view, based on folders and then disable notifications for all the services from the hammer icon.

Cheers

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You are talking about downtime or acknowledge host/service problems, @nschell asked for disabling service notifications.
It’s not totally clear what @nschell likes to accomplish.

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Hi @tosch,

I wasn’t talking about that :slight_smile:
This is what I was talking about:

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Okay, never used this and no clue what it’s actually doing, disabling notifications just at the core, maybe creating a rule or even just disabling notifications for these services just for the user.

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I found it useful when you’re trying to manage several sites / folders in CME. Since in views you’ve got plenty of options it can sometimes suits you more than the regular rule creation.
But I get your point and you’re also right, just different approaches.

Cheers mate

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@tosch We have several hosts in different folders.

Some Hosts (from openstack for example) create and remove Interfaces on the fly.
Those should be shown as Unknown/Warning/Critical but not produce any notifications for our night shift via Email/Telegram. So far I disabled all services by hand using what @tavanez wrote:

Doing that for each host in a specific folder can take some time though and some interfaces are created on the fly. So I need a way to automate that (disable notifications for specific services for hosts in a specific folder)…

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Disabling notifications “on the fly” with this button will (afaik) only set the “live” state in the monitoring core. I suggest creating a WATO rule instead to set “Notification period for services” to “never”. This gives you all the usual flexibility of WATO conditions: service by regexp match, wato folder, …

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In this case the rule I mentioned will be the best option. Rules can also be for specific folders and/or for hosttags too.
You can use regular expression for the service you like to disable notifications for.

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Yes, as @tosch says.
His “Enable/disable notifications for services” is more suitable than the “Notification period: never” I suggested.

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I think that solved my question. Have to see if it works.

Thanks to all. @tosch @tavanez @martin.schwarz

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