Different monitoring times/escalations, same services

[Guy Knights]

I've set up nagios 2.0 with a number of hosts, hostgroups, services, 
servicegroups and service escalations. However, I'm having trouble 
working out how I can go about configuring some of these services so 
that the notification/escalation pattern is different at different times.

For example, we have this service:

define service{
   name                         
generic-template-library-high-priority-service
   servicegroups                weekday-high-priority-services
   max_check_attempts           2
   normal_check_interval        1
   retry_check_interval         1
   check_period                 libsys-operating-hours
   notification_interval        2
   notification_period          libsys-operating-hours
   notification_options         w,u,c
   contact_groups               libsys-DEC
   register                     0
}

define service{
   host_name            jasper
   service_description  Check process [httpd]
   check_command        library_check_nrpe-check_procs_name!1:99!1:149!httpd
   use                  generic-template-library-high-priority-service
}

The servicegroup that this service is a member of follows a particular 
escalation pattern during our operating hours. However, on the weekend, 
we'd like the notification/escalation pattern to be completely 
different, as we don't want the person on call to be bombarded with text 
messages if they can't get to a PC to acknowledge the service problem.

The number of services we want to monitor on the weekend is also much 
smaller than during the week. I can't, at the moment, see any other way 
to set up the notification schedule for on-call monitoring without 
creating multiple copies of services marked as "Check process [httpd] - 
weekday" and "Check process [httpd] - weekend" (for example).

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can set this up? If I could 
just override notification timings in servicegroup descriptions, I think 
this would be the answer, but I'm almost certain that isn't possible.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Guy





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Guy Knights
Computer Systems Officer
Queensland University of Technology
Victoria Park Road
Kelvin Grove, QLD
Ph: (07) 3864 3350
Fax: (07) 3864 5890
Email: g.knights at qut.edu.au





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