scheduling recurring downtime?

[Stanley Hopcroft]

Dear Sir,

I think that you may find it easier to accomplish this (recurrent 
downtime) with other means than Nagios polling the service.

This is exactly the sort of scenario that John Rouillard described as 
being advantageous for Sec (Simple Event Correlator) to manage the 
checks of the service (Mr Rouillard has already sussed out a Nag 
interface to Sec. You may want to write to him if you are keen on trying 
out his patches).

In this case, without any mods to Nag, you may be better off

1 Defining passive service checks for this sort of service

2 Checking the service by other means (eg have cron schedule a wrapper 
of the plugin that logs it's output to Sec on a HARD state and retries 
otherwise)

3 Configure Sec to write a PASSIVE_SERVICE_CHECK_RESULT if the criteria 
are met.

Yours sincerely.


-- 
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Stanley Hopcroft
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'...No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the
continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a
manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes
me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know
for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee...'

from Meditation 17, J Donne.


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