checking service once a day

[Silver Salonen]

On 12.08.2011 11:25, Jim Avery wrote:
> On 12 August 2011 08:36, Silver Salonen<silver at serverock.ee>  wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>> I want to check a service only once a day. So I tried this configuration:
>>
>> define timeperiod {
>>      timeperiod_name once-a-day
>>      alias       On mornings
>>      monday      08:00-08:30
>>      tuesday     08:00-08:30
>>      wednesday   08:00-08:30
>>      thursday    08:00-08:30
>>      friday      08:00-08:30
>>      saturday    08:00-08:30
>>      sunday      08:00-08:30
>> }
>>
>> define service {
>>      use generic-service
>>      check_period        once-a-day
>>      normal_check_interval  1440        ; 24 hours
>>      ...
>> }
>>
>> Now when I check the service's next schedule time, Nagios is still
>> showing that the next check is scheduled to 24h after the previous check
>> and at 22:53 (pm). Restarting Nagios does not change that. Any tips for
>> what's wrong in the configuration?
>
> If Nagios wants to schedule a check at a certain time, but it's not in
> the timeperiod then it won't run it.

That's interesting. Documentation says:

Specifying a timeperiod in the/check_period/directive allows you to 
restrict the time that Nagios perform regularly scheduled, active checks 
of the host or service. When Nagios attempts to reschedule a host or 
service check, it will make sure that the next check falls within a 
valid time range within the defined timeperiod. If it doesn't, Nagios 
will adjust the next check time to coincide with the next "valid" time 
in the specified timeperiod.

So I guess documentation is wrong then?

> If you don't mind what time of day your check is run, then use the
> standard 24x7 timeperiod.
>
> If you want a check to run at a specific time of day, you need to run
> it from cron so it submits the check result to Nagios as a passive
> check.
>
> http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/nagioscore/3/en/passivechecks.html
>
> Alternatively, if you don't mind your check being run a couple of
> times each day, I would think you could leave your config as it is,
> but set the normal_check_interval to 12 (minutes) or so to give it a
> good chance of being scheduled within your 30-minute window.
> Personally I would use cron, but it can be a bit fiddly to set up the
> first time you try it.

OK, I guess I'd have to go with the passive checks through crontab then 
(because I do mind what time the checks are run).

--
Silver
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://www.monitoring-lists.org/archive/users/attachments/20110812/d3e0bd0f/attachment.html>
-------------- next part --------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Get a FREE DOWNLOAD! and learn more about uberSVN rich system, 
user administration capabilities and model configuration. Take 
the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the 
tools developers use with it. 
http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-dev2dev
-------------- next part --------------
_______________________________________________
Nagios-users mailing list
Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users
::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. 
::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null