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Dan Garthwaite
Asked: 2014-01-13 08:54:53 +0800 CST

How to exempt weekends from freshness checks in Nagios

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Thank you, serverfault, for giving me the answer to how-does-an-administrator-generalize-alerting-when-an-event-doesnt-happen.

Now, I only want to check the freshness of these passive services Monday through Friday.

There are some subtleties:

  • The status should be allowed to improve over the weekend.
  • The status should never degrade over the weekend.
  • Notifications should still be emitted over the weekend.

Best I can come up with is YACS - Yet Another Cron Script (to shave). But even then, wouldn't the service definitions need to be toggled every week? Is this service definition dynamism often done with Nagios?

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  1. Best Answer

    You can use time periods in Nagios :

    If you want different behaviours between Week days and Week-end, i cannot see another way to do it without duplicate the service check :

    • Configure your first service check with a time period from Monday to Friday, and with the required behaviour for this period.

    • Then, configure the duplicated service check with a time period from Saturday to Sunday, and with the required behaviour for this period.

    I don't like the duplicate service idea, but i am not aware about other ways to do it...that is actually the way i proceed myself in my Nagios config...

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