Notification blackout ignored

[Marco Supino]

Hi,

Did you find a solution ? it looks like the cfg files only process the 
first option they find, and the second is ignored.

Marco.


Martin, Jeremy wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Some of our older servers restart their web server software every day
> early in the morning. I am trying to set up an exclude in the timeperiod
> so we don't get pages/emails every day when the servers reset. 
> 
> For example one of our servers "web03" resets around 4:10 am, so I'm
> trying to disable notifications just from 4:00 - 4:30 AM. 30 minutes is
> a bit overkill so I might narrow it down later on, but I'm just trying
> to get it to work first. 
> 
> Here's the timeperiod I have set up:
> 
> define timeperiod {
> timeperiod_name                web03
> alias                          WEB03
> sunday                         00:00-04:00,04:30-24:00
> monday                         00:00-04:00,04:30-24:00
> tuesday                        00:00-04:00,04:30-24:00
> wednesday                      00:00-04:00,04:30-24:00
> thursday                       00:00-04:00,04:30-24:00
> friday                         00:00-04:00,04:30-24:00
> saturday                       00:00-04:00,04:30-24:00
> }
> 
> For each service for web03 in my services.cfg file, first I am
> inheriting a generic-tcp definition which is using the 24x7
> notification_period by default. Then I try to override the default
> notification_period with my custom one:
> 
> define service {
> use                            generic-tcp
> host_name                      web03
> service_description            HTTP-QA
> check_command                  check_site!/!whatever
> notification_period            web03
> }
> 
> Also in my hosts.cfg file I have a similar set up - inheriting a generic
> host template and then trying to override the notification_period to be
> web03 instead of 24x7.
> 
> Unfortunately I'm still getting warnings during the 4:00 - 4:30 AM
> "blackout" zone... a "Host DOWN" and "Host UP" warning. At first I had
> the notification_period set up in the services.cfg only so I figured
> surely once I added it to hosts.cfg it would work, but it doesn't seem
> to be working.
> 
> So far it has only been host up / host down messages that have got
> through, not actual service up/down messages. I'm halfway tempted to use
> "notification_options n" for the host and only be notified about
> services, but that's probably not the best way to do things.
> 
> Nagios is giving me 0 warnings/errors when I test my config files so I'm
> not sure why it seems to be ignoring my notification_period in my hosts
> file. 
> 
> I also thought about maybe setting the check_period to my custom
> timeperiod as well but I'd prefer to have Nagios checking it 24/7, to
> keep accurate availability logs, and just disable the warnings, not the
> checks. Though if this won't work any other way I could change the
> check_period too if I had to. 
> 
> Hopefully someone can spot what I'm doing wrong! 
> 
> Thanks, and best wishes,
> Jeremy 
> 
> 
> 
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