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Hi All,

Any of you explain in brief on "timeperiod_name workhours" in nagios

for example: define timeperiod{
timeperiod_name workhours
alias "Normal" Working Hours
monday 08:00-18:00
tuesday 08:00-18:00 ....

this means, is it check the respective service at 08:00 & 18:00 or it will checks every hr/sec ... please clarify

Thanks in advance for your valuable feedback

Regards,
Bachegowda

read about timeperiods in the online documentation of Nagios: here

The timeperiods only cover alerting coverage for that particular service, as referenced by the notification_period directive in services.cfg.

To specify how often services are checked, normal_check_interval is what you need (here, we check every 2 minutes), then we retry on failure every 1 minute, and notify every 20 minutes until the service comes good or is acknowledged. We also check the service 3 times before alerting (i.e. the failure, then two retries).

Code:

define service {
        ...
        max_check_attempts              3
        normal_check_interval           2
        retry_check_interval            1
        notification_interval           20
        notification_period             mytimeperiod
        ...
}

Cheers
ZB