Nagios does time periods itself, so no need for cron:
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/nagioscore/3/en/timeperiods.html
The Nagios documentation is pretty good - have a check through. Chance are
it can do what you want.. ;-)
On 24 August 2012 22:10, Tech Support <supp...@voipbusiness.us> wrote:
> Hello;****
>
> I am fairly new to Nagios, and this is my first project using it. What
> I would like to do is run a plugin at specific times of the day. This
> particular plugin is pretty intrusive, so I would like to run it only at
> 7:00am and 7:00pm daily. Is there an easy way of doing this? I’m thinking
> that I can run the script out of CRON, then passively send the data to
> Nagios via its command pipe, but I’m not sure if that’s the best way to go.
> ****
>
> Thanks;****
>
> John ****
>
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