checking service once a day

[William Muriithi]

----- Original Message -----
From: Silver Salonen <silver at serverock.ee>
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Fri Aug 12 10:09:37 2011
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] checking service once a day

On 12.08.2011 17:54, Mike Guthrie wrote:
> Silver Salonen wrote:
>> On 12.08.2011 12:37, Silver Salonen wrote:
>>> On 12.08.2011 11:25, Jim Avery wrote:
>>>> On 12 August 2011 08:36, Silver Salonen<silver at serverock.ee>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello.
>>>>>
>>>>> I want to check a service only once a day. So I tried this configuration:
>>>>>
>>>>> define timeperiod {
>>>>>      timeperiod_name once-a-day
>>>>>      alias       On mornings
>>>>>      monday      08:00-08:30
>>>>>      tuesday     08:00-08:30
>>>>>      wednesday   08:00-08:30
>>>>>      thursday    08:00-08:30
>>>>>      friday      08:00-08:30
>>>>>      saturday    08:00-08:30
>>>>>      sunday      08:00-08:30
>>>>> }
>>>>>
>>>>> define service {
>>>>>      use generic-service
>>>>>      check_period        once-a-day
>>>>>      normal_check_interval  1440        ; 24 hours
>>>>>      ...
>>>>> }
>>>>>
> Do you need the check to run between 8-8:30, or just every 24 hours?
> Your check_interval will not exceed the maximum check spread that's in
> the main nagios.cfg file.  I would try either setting the timeperiod for
> the check *or* setting the wide check interval.
Yes, I wanted the checks to be run between 8:00 and 8:30. But as I 
woohooed in the previous e-mail, it seems I got it working :)

--
Silver

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