timeperiod not behaving as expected

[Assaf Flatto]

Carl

You have the right idea but wrong setup .
What you want to do it check : credit_card_hours .
and notification changed to  : credit_card_hours , that means it will 
only alert you in the hours that it is not " administratively down".

so have these directives changed :

notification_period 	credit_card_hours

check_period    credit_card_hours

that should solve your alerts issue.

Assaf
Carl Karsten wrote:
> So I took over someone's nagios setup - it works fine except it checks
> that a box is up 24x7 but the box has a cronjob that does 0600 ifup,
> 2000 ifdown;  so I get a wad of email every night telling me the box
> is down, and then the resolved when it comes back up.  So I tried to
> fix it, and now I get more email.
>
> Here is a diff of what I changed, my credit_card_hours, and the part
> of server.cfg that I think is relevant.
>
> juser at four:~/temp$ diff nag0.txt nag1.txt
> 1d0
> <
> 6c5
> <         check_period                    24x7            ; By
> default, Linux hosts are checked round the clock
> ---
>   
>>         check_period                    credit_card_hours
>>     
> 12,14c11,12
> <                                                         ; Note that
> the notification_period variable is being overridden from
> <                                                         ; the value
> that is inherited from the generic-host template!
> <         notification_interval           60              ; Resend
> notifications every 2 hours
> ---
>   
>>         notification_interval           60
>>     
>
>
> define timeperiod{
>         timeperiod_name credit_card_hours
>         alias           when credit cards can be processed
>
>         sunday          06:00-20:00
>         monday          06:00-20:00
>         tuesday         06:00-20:00
>         wednesday       06:00-20:00
>         thursday        06:00-20:00
>         friday          06:00-20:00
>         saturday        06:00-20:00
>
>
> define host{
>         use                             linux-server    ; This
> template inherits other values from the generic-host template
>         host_name                       mcve.cteusa.com         ; The
> name of this host
>         hostgroups                      linux-servers
>         check_period                    credit_card_hours
>         check_interval                  5               ; Actively
> check the host every 5 minutes
>         retry_interval                  1               ; Schedule
> host check retries at 1 minute intervals
>         max_check_attempts              10              ; Check each
> Linux host 10 times (max)
>         check_command                   check-host-alive ; Default
> command to check Linux hosts
>         notification_period             24x7    ; Linux admins hate to
> be woken up, so we only notify during the day
>
>         notification_interval           60
>         notification_options            d,u,r           ; Only send
> notifications for specific host states
>         contact_groups                  admins          ;
> Notifications get sent to the admins by default
>         register                        1
>         }
>
> define service{
>         use             generic-service         ; Inherit default
> values from a template
>         host_name               mcve.cteusa.com
>         service_description     SMTP
>         check_command   check_smtp!-t 5
>         }
> define service{
>         use             generic-service         ; Inherit default
> values from a template
>         host_name               mcve.cteusa.com
>         service_description     SSH
>         check_command   check_ssh
>         }
> define service{
>         use                             generic-service         ; Name
> of service template to use
>         host_name                       mcve.cteusa.com
>         service_description             PING
>         check_command                   check_ping!100.0,20%!500.0,60%
>         }
>
>
>   


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