Is there a way to prevent a host check in agive time period?

[Erik Spigle]

That doesn't work as expected per my original message on 02/25/05.  You can specify a new time period that indicates the "dead time" and then set that as the time period for the service check / notification and host notification, but host checks still happen as you cannot specify a "check_period" -- only notifcation period for the host.  When the host check fires off and fails, it queues up a notification then fires it off after the dead time is over.  

Here is a scenario to give example.  We set a new time period that is 00:00-03:00,04:00-24:00.  We use this time period on a specific server that we want absolutely no checks or notifications for the host or services between the hours of 03:00am and 04:00am every day.  It succeeds in not doing any service checks or notifications during this time period.  For the host portion, it manages not to notify *between 03:00am and 04:00am*.  It still must perform some type of check, though, as it fires off a notification if it saw anything happen during this hour as soon as 04:00am rolls around.

Someone previously mentioned it could have something to do with freshness checking, but didn't go any further with details on what I might want to look into.  Do I want to completely turn freshness checking off?  Exactly what do I need to do to make the host check not happen during this hour so it doesn't queue up a notfication after this hour passes?

Thanks.

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of Greg
Vickers
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 5:33 PM
Cc: Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Is there a way to prevent a host check in
agive time period?


There sure is a way - change the timeperiod defined for that host check 
/ notification so the timeperiod excludes that time frame. Then Nagios 
will not perform a check or send notifications during that time.

HTH,
Greg

Erik Spigle wrote:
> Is there a way, then, to prevent a host check / notification from ever happening during a specific timeframe?  It doesn't really mean much if you can prevent a host notification from happening during a specific timeframe only for it to fire off immediately when that timeframe is up because it checked the host anyway and queued up a notification.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jeff vier [mailto:boinger at tradingtechnologies.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 11:08 AM
> To: Erik Spigle
> Cc: nagios-users
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Is there a way to prevent a host check in
> agive time period?
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 10:29 -0600, Erik Spigle wrote:
> 
>>Why is there a "check_period" directive for service definitions, but not for host definitions?
> 
> <chop>
> 
> because host checks only "go off" if that host has a service alert.
> 
> 
>>it still did a host check during this period
> 
> 
> Why you got a host check fired off is likely an issue of freshness
> checking overriding your timeperiod (or, perhaps something else...hard
> to say offhand).
> 
> 
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