Nagios Core Administration Cookbook - Second Edition

Creating a new time period

In this recipe, we'll add a new time period definition to the Nagios Core configuration so that it allows us to set up monitoring for hosts and services only during weekdays. There's a default configuration defined as workhours that would almost suit us, except it doesn't include evenings, so we'll make a new one from scratch. We'll make another one to cover the weekends, too.

Getting ready

You should have a working Nagios Core 4.0 or better server running. You should also have a clear idea about when the boundaries for the time period you want to define are.

How to do it...

We can set up our new time period, which we'll call weekdays, as follows:

1. Change to our Nagios Core configuration objects directory and edit the file ...