This is not a complete script. I was only interested in scheduling a SERVICEGROUP through the Nagios command file (NAGIOSCMD). This is for obvious reasons if you ever used Nagios in large environments. It is painful to schedule and cancel downtimes. Since I wanted to be able to delete multiple…

Nagios on Linux for SPARC
I recently experimented a little with Linux for SPARC(more here https://oss.oracle.com/projects/linux-sparc/) and found it to be surprisingly stable. One of the environments I support is a pure OVM for SPARC environment and no luxury of Linux. So I am running some open source tools like Nagios, HAproxy etc on Solaris.…
Nagios Email Notifications with Comments
If you prefer more detail in the email notification of Nagios here is how to add those comments. For example someone acknowledging a service and you want to see the comment they added during acknowledgement. Note: I added $SERVICEACKCOMMENT$ and $NOTIFICATIONCOMMENT$ but I think in newer versions of Nagios $SERVICEACKCOMMENT$…