Scheduled downtime and Cacti VS Nagios

[willdej]

HI All
I use cacti to graph as well as to monitor services on windows boxes.
Is it possible to Schedule downtime on a device so that I do not get alerts when a device is downed on purpose? As I get deeper into my monitoring I am thinking maybe I should be using something like Nagios. Not looking to start any heated debates just wondering what the opinions are as far as best Open Source tool to use for Monitoring services and servers? I have mostly Windows servers ( 123) and a handfull of different nix variants as well as Firewalls , Switches, Routers etc. I see some stuff about linking Nagios and cacti so maybe this is the route I should take.. I prefer cacti as it is much less complicated to get devices added and monitored.

[gandalf]

Downtime alerting is not a core cacti functionality. So you seem to use a plugin to do so. This question is hence a question about that very plugin.
R.

[willdej]

No I am not yet using scheduled downtime. I am asking if this was a feature that was available native or as a plugin.

[gandalf]

There are three plugins that come to my mind. We're not using any of them for _our_ downtime monitoring, so I do not have a practical knowledge of them. But here they are:
- THOLD
- MANAGE
- MONITOR

R.

[TheWitness]

I would suspect that this would be a nice addon for one of the Plugins previously mentioned.

Once we have the 0.8.8 version implemented, we will have the concept of Sites, and you would conceptually be able to disable a complete site in one mouse click (or so).

TheWitness