"strange" warnings from the config files

[Andreas Ericsson]

Morten Guldager wrote:
> 'Aloha!
> 
> How come that I get a warning if I omit the "check_period" on services while
> it seems to be ok to leave it out on the hosts?
> 

Because it's something one normally wants to associate with a service.

> It says:
> Warning: Service 'check-stuff' on host 'nice-box' has no check time period
> defined!
> 
> 
> Will nagios act well defined if I simply ignore these warnings?

For a given value of "well defined", yes ;-)

> And how?
> 

By checking the service as if you'd defined a timeperiod encompassing all the
hours of all days (I think). It could also be by not checking the service at
all, which one could argue is actually correct. Try and find out.

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