28. 12. 2025
Automation, Business Service Monitoring, Icinga Web 2, NetEye, Service Management
25. 09. 2023
Juergen Vigna
Icinga Web 2, NetEye, Unified Monitoring
Monitoring Downtime Automation from Windows
Do you ever need to reboot or do maintenance on your Windows Server? Then if the server is monitored by NetEye, you’ll surely want to mark it in downtime so as not to have notifications sent out for problems arising due to maintenance, and/or to be able to have the correct SLA marked for your Server Uptime and Service Availability.
To make this easy to do on a Windows machine you can start by downloading this PowerShell script: neteye_set_host_and_service_downtime.ps1.
You’ll have to make a few modifications to the script in order to get it to work:
- Set the NetEye/Icinga 2 Hostname (or IP) [
$icingaApiHost] - Set the NetEye/Icinga 2 API username [
$icingaApiUser] - Set the NetEye/Icinga 2 API user-password [
$icingaApiPassword] - Add the contents of the NetEye Root CA certificate (.crt ) to the script inside the BEGIN/END Certificate Lines indented as shown in the file. This needs to be the CA you made the API Certificate with.
The script has the following usage:
neteye_set_host_and_service_downtime.ps1 <DMIN> <COMMENT> [<HOSTNAME>]DMIN: Downtime minutes starting from nowCOMMENT: The downtime comment to addHOSTNAME: If not given the script will use the local FQDN host name in lower case.
Now, calling the script manually or within a reboot or maintainance script will set the Host and ALL its services on the NetEye/Icinga2 API into Downtime.
I hope you can use and enjoy this script for your daily work.
Juergen Vigna
NetEye Solution Architect at Würth IT Italy
I have over 20 years of experience in the IT branch. After first experiences in the field of software development for public transport companies, I finally decided to join the young and growing team of Würth Phoenix (now Würth IT Italy). Initially, I was responsible for the internal Linux/Unix infrastructure and the management of CVS software. Afterwards, my main challenge was to establish the meanwhile well-known IT System Management Solution WÜRTHPHOENIX NetEye. As a Product Manager I started building NetEye from scratch, analyzing existing open source models, extending and finally joining them into one single powerful solution. After that, my job turned into a passion: Constant developments, customer installations and support became a matter of personal. Today I use my knowledge as a NetEye Senior Consultant as well as NetEye Solution Architect at Würth Phoenix.
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