Scheduling Downtime for Hashtags

By scheduling downtime against a Hashtag, you are scheduling a downtime for all the Hosts and Service Checks within that Hashtag. Notifications will not be sent out if failures occur during the set time period.

In Monitoring > Hashtags > List View, locate the Hashtag for which you wish to schedule a downtime, click on the contextual menu for the given Hashtag and select Schedule Downtime:

If you are in Monitoring > Hashtags > Grid View, left-click the Hashtag and Schedule Downtime:

Downtime Scheduling Copied

The Downtime page provides two methods for scheduling downtime: Status Based Selection and General Selection. Each tab offers different ways to select hosts and service checks to be placed into downtime.

Status Based Selection Copied

The Status Based Selection tab allows you to schedule downtime based on the current state of service checks or hosts.

You can schedule downtime in one of the following ways:

• Select service checks individually and schedule downtime only for the selected checks.
• Schedule downtime based on service check state, for example applying DOWNTIME only to service checks that are currently in a CRITICAL state.
• Schedule downtime for all hosts and all service checks. This action places the host and all associated service checks into a DOWNTIME state.

Note

If you have selected Exclude Handled in the Hashtag configuration, any failures that occur during the downtime window will not affect the overall status of the hashtag. The hashtag will remain OK (green), even though individual service checks within the hashtag may still show a failed state (CRITICAL or WARNING).

For more information about Exclude Handled, see Adding a New Hashtag.

General Selection Copied

The General Selection tab allows you to schedule downtime by selecting hosts, service checks, or a combination of both.

Selection behavior is dynamic:

• When one or more hosts are selected, the Service Checks list displays only the service checks associated with those hosts.
• When service checks are selected first, the Host dropdown displays only the hosts that contain the selected service checks.

Button availability depends on the selections made:

• If only the Host selection box is populated, both Add Hosts and Add Service Checks buttons are enabled.
• If both the Host and Service Check selection boxes are populated, only the Add Service Checks button is enabled.

Add Hosts Copied

The Add Hosts button adds one or more selected hosts to the downtime list.

• Only the host objects are explicitly added.
• All service checks associated with each selected host are automatically included and affected by the scheduled downtime.

This button is disabled when:

• No host is selected from the dropdown, or
• Both a host and one or more service checks are selected.

Add Service Checks Copied

The Add Service Checks button behaves as follows:

• If no specific service checks are selected from the Service Checks dropdown, all service checks associated with the selected host are added to the downtime list.
• If one or more service checks are selected, only the specified service checks for the selected host are added.

This button is disabled when no host is selected from the dropdown.

Filtering the downtime list Copied

The Filter field allows you to filter and refine the entries displayed in the table.

• Filters apply to all columns: HOST, SERVICE CHECK, STATUS, and STATUS INFO.
• Once a filter is applied, only rows matching the filter criteria are displayed.
• You can further refine the list by deleting individual rows.

Only the visible rows in the table are submitted for downtime scheduling unless the filter field is cleared.

Deleting entries Copied

Click Delete Row to remove a selected row from the table.