Nagios Core Administration Cookbook

Creating a new time period

In this recipe, we'll add a new time period definition to the Nagios Core configuration to allow 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 that it doesn't include the evenings. We'll make a new one from scratch, and we'll make another one to cover the weekends too.

Getting ready

You should have a working Nagios Core 3.0 or better server running.

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 called timeperiods.cfg:

   # cd /usr/local/nagios/etc/objects
   # vi timeperiods.cfg
   

2. Add the following definitions ...