[TriLUG] Availability reporting: nagios vs big brother

[Paul G. Szabady]

Folks,

I have a question related to the server availability reporting in big
brother vs nagios.  We currently use big brother, yet when there's an
outage, we disable monitoring.  This minimizes email and paging noise
while working on the issue(s).  The downfall is that the availability
report data gets skewed and doesn't show an accurate representation of
server uptime.  Does nagios have the ability to stop paging, but continue
monitoring so that the availability reports are accurate?  According to
the manual, it seems to be that way, but I'd like to make sure before I
suggest moving from BB to nagios.

Thanks!

-- 
Paul
@ Thy Service