checking service once a day

[Silver Salonen]

On 12.08.2011 17:48, Jim Avery wrote:
> On 12 August 2011 15:03, Silver Salonen<silver at serverock.ee>  wrote:
>
>> Ah yes, previously I just restarted Nagios every day (from crontab) so that
>> the checks would be re-scheduled, but in the new installation Nagios does
>> not re-schedule the checks on startup. Is there an option for that? I don't
>> seem to find it...
>
> It's been a while since I've played with any of those options myself.
> I think you'll find it's this directive in nagios.cfg which controls
> whether Nagios re-schedules checks on startup ..
>
> # USE RETAINED SCHEDULING INFO
> # This setting determines whether or not Nagios will retain
> # the scheduling info (next check time) for hosts and services
> # based on the values saved in the retention file.  If you
> # If you want to use retained scheduling info, set this
> # value to 1.  If not, set this value to 0.
>
> use_retained_scheduling_info=1
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jim
Thank you very much, Jim!

After setting this option to 0, the next check is now scheduled to 
tomorrow 8:00 which is exactly what I want :)
So I guess the smartness of Nagios' scheduling (and whether it follows 
time period restrictions) is dependent on this option.

--
Silver

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