Running a plugin at specific times

[Paul M Dubuc]

> On 24 August 2012 22:10, Tech Support <support at voipbusiness.us
> <mailto:support at voipbusiness.us>> wrote:
>
>     Hello;____
>
>          I am fairly new to Nagios, and this is my first project using
>     it. What I would like to do is run a plugin at specific times of the
>     day. This particular plugin is pretty intrusive, so I would like to
>     run it only at  7:00am and 7:00pm daily. Is there an easy way of
>     doing this? I’m thinking that I can run the script out of CRON, then
>     passively send the data to Nagios via its command pipe, but I’m not
>     sure if that’s the best way to go. ____
>
Stu Watts wrote:> Nagios does time periods itself, so no need for cron:
 >
 > http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/nagioscore/3/en/timeperiods.html
 >
 > The Nagios documentation is pretty good - have a check through.  Chance
 > are it can do what you want.. ;-)
 >

I don't think setting time periods will ensure that a check is run at 
specific times.  Best they can do is specify time periods in which they 
may run.

Using cron may be the way to go.

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