On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> How to use "exclude_period" parameter in a Mon.cf file ?
> I want to launch a specific monitor only during a certain period of the
> week (open hours).
> I tried this way :
> service Appli-BH
> exclude_period wday {saturday sunday}, wday {monday-friday} hour
> {19-8}
> interval 5m
> monitor phttp.rrdrt.monitor ...
> period wday {monday-friday} hour {9-18}
> alert my-file.alert ....
> upalert my-file.alert ...
> period wday {monday-friday} hour {9-18}
> alertafter 2 9m
> alert my-sendtrap.alert ...
> upalert my-sendtrap.alert ...
you can't have two periods with the exact same periodspecs without
using a label. from the man page:
The second form requires a label followed by a
period specification, as defined above. The label
is a tag consisting of an alphabetic character or
underscore followed by zero or more alphanumerics
or underscores and ending with a colon. This form
allows multiple periods with the same period defi�
nition. One use is to have a period definition
which has no alertafter or alertevery parameters
for a particular time period, and another for the
same time period with a different set of alerts
that does contain those parameters.
so you'll need something like:
service Appli-BH
exclude_period wday {saturday sunday}, wday {monday-friday} hour {19-8}
interval 5m
monitor phttp.rrdrt.monitor ...
period P1: wday {monday-friday} hour {9-18}
alert my-file.alert ....
upalert my-file.alert ...
period P2: wday {monday-friday} hour {9-18}
alertafter 2 9m
alert my-sendtrap.alert ...
upalert my-sendtrap.alert ...
since the exclude_period prevents the monitor from running during the
excluded ranges, the period sections can safely have "wd {Sun-Sat}"
instead of the inverse of the exclude period.
try that out and see if it works. sometimes it's useful to make a test
alert script for debugging purposes which only appends some text (like
a date string) to a file.
> Additionnal question : use of exclude_hosts ?
the answer is in the man page.
