Time periods seem to be no-ops

[Patrick Rutkowski]

We've defined the following time period for use with a service which we
know to be down between 9am and 10am every day:

========== BEGIN CODE SNIPPET ==========
define timeperiod{
         timeperiod_name do_not_notify_bw_9am_10am
         alias           Every day and time, except 9am-10am
         sunday          00:00-8:59,10:01-24:00
         monday          00:00-8:59,10:01-24:00
         tuesday         00:00-8:59,10:01-24:00
         wednesday       00:00-8:59,10:01-24:00
         thursday        00:00-8:59,10:01-24:00
         friday          00:00-8:59,10:01-24:00
         saturday        00:00-8:59,10:01-24:00
         }
========== END CODE SNIPPET ==========

We then applied it to a service like so:

========== BEGIN CODE SNIPPET ==========
define service {
         host_name                       our-special-host
         service_description             Check status of MySQL  
reporting:3307
         check_command                   check_mysql_service!16105
         use                             generic-service
         notification_period             do_not_notify_bw_9am_10am
         notification_interval           0
         contact_groups                  company-admins
         }
========== END CODE SNIPPET ==========

Oddly, the service continues to give us notifications during that time
interval. We tried setting check_interval instead of
notification_interval, but still no luck. We also tried setting both
{notification,check}_interval, but again, no luck.

To preempt the obvious question, yes, we did restart
Nagios. Additionally, to ensure that the time period was indeed
getting attached to the service, we used to GUI page to browse to
"Configuration" -> "View Config" -> "Object Type: Services" and
verified that the columns entitled "Check Period" and "Notification
Period" had "do_not_notify_bw_9am_10am" instead of the usual "24x7".

Despite all this, we're still getting warnings during this time
interval.

As a quick fix, we can use SCHEDULE_SVC_DOWNTIME with
/var/lib/nagios2/rw/nagios.cmd, which does work; but it definitely
doesn't feel like a permanent solution.

-Patrick


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