service checks and timeperiods

[Mascardo, Erwin]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Lori Adams [mailto:ladams at cloudmark.com] 
>Sent: Wednesday, 08 June, 2005 15:27
>
>Below are my configurations, and the error I get when doing a verify.
>define service {
>        use                             generic-service-template
>	  host_name				    bar
>        service_description             doneQ
>	 #service_description		    doneQ-morn
>        check_command                   check_doneq!500
>        contact_groups                  r2-admins
>        check_period                    5am-to-10am
>        normal_check_interval           5
>        }
>
>define service {
>        use                             generic-service-template
>	  host_name				    bar
>        service_description             doneQ
>        check_command                   check_doneq!200
>        contact_groups                  r2-admins
>        check_period                    all-but-5am-to-10am
>        normal_check_interval           5
>        }
>
>Error: Service 'doneQ' on host 'bar' has already been defined
>
>Error: Could not register service (config file
>'/srv/http/nagios/etc/services.cfg', line 467)
>
>What I want is for in the UI, there should be one visible check.
>Currently in the UI, it says doneQ, and doneQ-morn (see 
>comment in first
>config), as I have to prepare two different checks because of the
>different thresholds.

Try a wrapper script which checks to see what time it is, and then
passes the appropriate argument to your actual check command based on
that.
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