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Hello all,

Is there a way to define time in days or months?

For example

max_check_attempts 3
normal_check_interval 10
retry_check_interval 1
contact_groups admins
notification_interval 30d
notification_period 24x7
notification_options c,r,w,u

"d" is being ignored/not suported and all notifications are stored every 30 minutes.
Is there a way to define it as 30d instead of 24x60x30=43200 minutes?

amprantino wrote: Is there a way to define time in days or months?

Not really. You could certainly rewrite the C and recompile (https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/), but I suspect that is not what you are looking for.

There's also another way you could do it, but I think you should read through https://support.nagios.com/forum/viewto ... =7&t=29795 to understand the full context (basically, it's a bad idea).

dwhitfield wrote:

amprantino wrote: Is there a way to define time in days or months?

Not really. You could certainly rewrite the C and recompile (https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore/), but I suspect that is not what you are looking for.

There's also another way you could do it, but I think you should read through https://support.nagios.com/forum/viewto ... =7&t=29795 to understand the full context (basically, it's a bad idea).

Yes, I don't want to change time interval; the base should be "1 minute".
I am looking to configure the interval in an easy way to read (1h = 1hour, 1d = 1day , 1m = 1month).
Nagios is just ignoring the character after the number

You are welcome to file a feature request at https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/na ... issues/new

As this is the way things have been in nagios for a long time, I doubt there will be changes, but it never hurts to ask. I'm not a developer, so I cannot say what sort of issues this might cause or how easy it will be to implement.