<html> <head> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 10 (filtered)"> <style>  </style> </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple> <div class=Section1> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'>I am using Nagios to monitor some workstations that are active from 9 to 5 but shut down otherwise. I am monitoring these workstations passively using the NSCA add-on and I check the freshness by having a check command like in the documentation. However, when the workstations shut down at 5, the passive checks stop coming, as they should. After 30 minutes of no passive checks, Nagios runs the active check of check_freshness.sh, and reports the services as critical because they haven’t checked in for 30 minutes. I don’t want it to run this check because the device should be off. Also, when the workstations start up in the morning and check in, I get notifications saying the services have recovered, when in reality they never really went down in the first place. Is there way to not have it run the active check after a certain time? Or in the script is there a way to check the current time and not return anything if it isn’t between 9 and 5? Thanks for any help.</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'>David</span></font></p> </div> </body> </html>