Timeperiod Assistance

[and1100]

Hello,

My goal is to have notifications for a specific host be sent out only during the hours of 6AM est and 5pm est, Monday through Friday. All other hours will not send any alerts. I have defined the following timeperiod in timeperiods.cfg

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define timeperiod{
        timeperiod_name test-uptime
        alias           Uptime Hours

        use             us-holidays             ; Get holiday exceptions from other timeperiod

        monday          06:01-17:00
        tuesday         06:01-17:00
        wednesday       06:01-17:00
        thursday        06:01-17:00
        friday          06:01-17:00
        }

In my linux.cfg, for the host, it looks as follows:

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define host{
        use                     linux-server
        host_name               testserver
        alias                   teserver
        address                 x.x.x.x
        hostgroups              linux
        max_check_attempts      2
        notification_interval   30
        notification_period     test-uptime
        hostgroups              testgroup
        contacts                blah
        }

As I was going through the configs accumulating the information, I may have realized my error. Do I need to define the notification_period for each specific service that is being checked?

Thanks.

[and1100]

Also, if do need to add notification_period for the specific servers, how would I then only do it for one specific server in a hostgroup. Would I need to create a separate service check separate from the hostgroup for that one host?

[abrist]

Do I need to define the notification_period for each specific service that is being checked?

Only if you need to override host/template settings, otherwise you could set the timeperiod on the host or on the template.

Would I need to create a separate service check separate from the hostgroup for that one host?

Not necessarily. Settings on the object itself will override settings on the hostgroup/etc. Basically, the closer you are to the host/service object, the higher precedence your settings take.

[and1100]

Hi abrist,

Thank you for the response and information. I have set the timeperiod on the host definition but I still seem to be receiving the alerts when I'd like them to be suppressed.

I double checked the configuration in the GUI has well and it looks to have stuck for the host:


Time Period test-uptime
Name Alias/Description Exclusions Days/Dates Times
test-uptime test Uptime Hours december 25 00:00:00 - 00:00:00
july 4 00:00:00 - 00:00:00
january 1 00:00:00 - 00:00:00
thursday 4 november 00:00:00 - 00:00:00
monday 1 september 00:00:00 - 00:00:00
monday -1 may 00:00:00 - 00:00:00
monday 06:01:00 - 17:00:00
tuesday 06:01:00 - 17:00:00
wednesday 06:01:00 - 17:00:00
thursday 06:01:00 - 17:00:00
friday 06:01:00 - 17:00:00

Is there something I am not seeing?

Thank you!

[slansing]

No that looks fine to me, can you verify your configuration and show us the output?:

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/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg

Also, you are sure that you restarted nagios correct?

[and1100]

Hi - yep I have definitely restarted Nagios.

Combing through the configs again.

Thank you.

[slansing]

Are you just testing this with the host? You will want to assign the time period to either your services, or your contact(s)/groups that are assigned to them as well to suppress those notifications.