Bug, Feature or Layer 8 problem?

[Andreas Ericsson]

Andre Timmermann wrote:
> Hello List,
> 
> we are generating the timeperiods for our oncall-support via script.
> Sometimes, one line of the configfile semes to be ignored:
> 
> define timeperiod{
>         timeperiod_name                 andre_2pikett_week
>         alias                           Andre 2nd Pikett
> 
>     2009-03-29          09:00-24:00
>     2009-03-30          00:00-09:00
>     2009-03-30          18:00-24:00
>     2009-03-31          00:00-09:00
> }
> 
> In this case there is a problem with the second definition of
> 2009-03-30, it will be ignored. So I will not get any messages between
> 18:00 and 24:00.
> 
> Of course, if i I use
>     2009-03-30          00:00-09:00,18:00-24:00 
> it will work.
> 
> Unfortunately there is no message during startup of nagios, stating that
> it will ignore one line of my configfile.
> 
> Is this a bug or a feature? ;)
> 

It's a feature, of sorts. Exceptions are parsed as they are encountered,
and timerange definitions are absolute. This means you actually have
to put both all timeranges for a specific date on the same line.

Nagios not warning about it could possibly be a bug, but then again,
it's pretty nifty to be able to temporarily override a value by simply
specifying the variable again later in the object, so I'm not so sure.

Can't you make your script generate timeranges in the proper format?
It seems to me like that would by far be the simplest solution.

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