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Is there a way to limit Event Handlers to only run during specific hours of the day? For instance, weekdays from 8-5 only, and not execute on weekends?

We have a team that only wants the event handler action to run during this timeframe.

We are running Nagios XI 5.6.10 on RHEL VMs.

There are a couple ways you could accomplish this. The easiest would probably be to make a duplicate of the service, define opposite time periods (maybe workhours, and non-workhours), assign the respective time periods to each, and then set only one of the services to trigger an event handler.

The other way would be to write a condition into a script, so that the event handler only executes during certain times.

1 last question on this:

Is there a way to run checks only on US Holidays? I see that 24x7_sans_holidays says has the option: But we would want to be able to do the opposite and only run on US Holidays.


Check 1:
Work hours sans holidays

Check 2:
Non Work Hours

Check 3:
Work Hours for US Holidays?

You can define whatever time period you wish. Navigate to the Configure section of XI using the navigation bar on top > click Core Config Manager under Advanced Configuration on the left pane > then click Time Periods under Alerting > and click the + Add New button.