# Start time for Nagios downtime

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/start-time-for-nagios-downtime/30090>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [April 10, 2019, 2:27pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/start-time-for-nagios-downtime/30090 "2019-04-10T14:27:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Daniel\_A\_Ramaley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d26b3c/32.png) [@Daniel\_A\_Ramaley](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Daniel_A_Ramaley)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2019, 2:27pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/start-time-for-nagios-downtime/30090/1 "2019-04-10T14:27:48Z")

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Hello!

I’m looking at documentation for the Nagios module. How does one specify when downtime is supposed to start? I don’t see any way to provide that, just the duration of the outage (which presumably starts “now”?).

My use case is i have a role that applies Linux updates on servers and if there was a kernel update, schedules a reboot during maintenance hours. I want to configure downtime in Nagios to coincide with the reboot schedule.

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**Author:** ![Daniel\_A\_Ramaley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d26b3c/32.png) [@Daniel\_A\_Ramaley](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Daniel_A_Ramaley)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2019, 5:32pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/start-time-for-nagios-downtime/30090/2 "2019-04-23T17:32:20Z")

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Seems this feature just didn’t exist yet. I’ve added it and submitted a pull request:

[https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/55652](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/55652)