Hi all,
i am on Checkmk Pro (formerly Enterprise) 2.5.0p4.
It seems to be very over complicated. When i add scheduled downtimes maybe for weekly backup reasons, why i cant just add a checkbox that i dont want to be notified about anything inside this time. Now i got 60 Notifications about DOWNTIMESTART and DOWNTIMEEND. This is very annoying. I know there is a hint to configure time periods for notifications but it seems like i cant add two of the periods to one rule and also the exception seems to be a bit weird in what is expected there to put as values. Its an extra unnecessary step anyway.
So why is this DOWNTIMESTART and DOWNTIMEEND the default for a scheduled maintenance? And why i cant just disable those notifications with a checkbox?
Maybe i am just a bit confused then please explain to me how to solve it in a simple way.
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First question from my side would be - do you want any downtime start or end notification at all?
If you don’t want any of these notifications you can create a rule like this.
The same applies for host events.
If you say you want some downtime start/end notifications then you can create a notification rule that cancels downtime messages for specific hosts. In my example if a host label “no:downtime” is present.
With one of these two ways it should be possible to reduce the unwanted notifications. The cancel notification rule you can also bind to a specific time period for instance.
To answer this - it is a historic thing. DOWNTIMESTART and DOWNTIMEEND are the events inside the monitoring core that announce the change in state of a host or service. Scheduled maintenance is in the perspective of the monitoring core the same as a down time.
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