services for hostgroups : disable notifications for hosts that are shutdown during the night ?

[ghoulsblade]

hi all !

i have services linked to hostgroups like http/mail/linuxbasechecks/...
but some servers are shutdown over night, and others continue to run 24hours
i don't want to get notifications for the servers that are shutdown 
during the night.

do i really have to dublicate all services and make a 24h variant and a 
workhours only variant or is there a more elegant solution like

make service checks dependent on host up/down status
or use host-notification period as macro in service notification period

or what would be the best/normal/standard way to solve this ?

(nagios3 version 3.0.6-4~lenny2 on debian lenny)
example service :

define service{
     use                             generic-service         ; Name of 
service template to use
     hostgroup_name                    g_linux_base
     service_description             disk1
     check_command                    check_nrpe_1arg!check_disk1
}

example host with nightly shutdown

define host {
     use linux server
     host_name somehost
     alias some_descriptive_text
     address 11.4.121.215
     check_period workhours-not-nightoff
     notification_period workhours
     hostgroups all,g_svn,g_git,g_linux_base
}


regards,
ghoulsblade

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