Different args for different times

[Russell Scibetti]

I just gave in and did it that way.

Maybe something to keep in mind for future Nagios features - Time based 
command/arguments.

Russell

Subhendu Ghosh wrote:

>not easy in the current setup.
>
>easiest would be to write a wrapper which checks localtime and calls 
>check_load with the approriate args...
>
>-sg
>
>On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Russell Scibetti wrote:
>
>>I want to have a service defined that runs a different command depending 
>>on the timeperiod.  Example:
>>
>>define service{
>>        use                             GenericService
>>        host_name                       backup_host
>>        service_description             Load
>>        check_command                   check_load!6,6,6!8,8,8
>>        check_period                    backup_times
>>        }
>>
>>define service{
>>        use                             GenericService
>>        host_name                       backup_host
>>        service_description             Load
>>        check_command                   check_load!2,2,2!4,4,4
>>        check_period                    nonbackup_times
>>        }
>>
>>However, Nagios yells about there being 2 services with the same name. 
>> I tried renaming the first one to backupLoad, which works except that 
>>if the service is critical at the end of the timeperiod, it continues to 
>>display a critical after the backup_times timeperiod is over.  Is there 
>>anyway around this?  Ideally I would like them to have the same name, so 
>>that during one timeperiod, one set of args is used and during the other 
>>timeperiod, the different set is used.  Any help would be appreciated.
>>
>>Russell Scibetti
>>
>>
>

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