Temporarily changing thresholds of an NRPE driven service check

[Sean McAfee]

I believe you're right - you'd have to schedule two checks, each using a 
custom time period. 

This can simplified by using the exclude and use directives:

define timeperiod{
        timeperiod_name vignette_backup
        sunday          20:00-23:00
        monday          20:00-23:00
        tuesday         20:00-23:00
        wednesday       20:00-23:00
        thursday        20:00-23:00
        friday          20:00-23:00
        saturday        20:00-23:00
        }

define timeperiod{
        timeperiod_name vignette
        use             24x7
        exclude         vignette_backup
        }

The standard check would then have check_period as vignette, while the 
one you'd like to run during your backup window would use vignette_backup.

Sean McAfee
System Engineer

Collaborative Fusion, Inc.
 smcafee at collaborativefusion.com
 412-422-3463 x 4025

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Pittsburgh, PA 15217

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Jim.Melin at co.hennepin.mn.us wrote:
> Good morning.
>
> We have a vignette content management server that every night syncs its content to a backup volume for nightly 'snapshot' purposes. This runs about 2
> hours. The service check that runs is NRPE driven, and we're using simple NRPE config where the ok, warn, critical values are coded on the target
> systems nrpe.conf file (we intend to change this when we convert to Nagios version 3).
>
> Given this structure is there a good way to be able to tell nagios from 20:00 to 23:00 use a diff service check? I figure it has to be something to do
> with a custom time period, but I'm really not sure what all I would need to do to make it work correctly.
>
> Any insights appreciated.
>
> -J
>
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