> On 24 August 2012 22:10, Tech Support <supp...@voipbusiness.us > <mailto: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. ____ > Stu Watts wrote:> 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.. ;-) >
I don't think setting time periods will ensure that a check is run at specific times. Best they can do is specify time periods in which they may run. Using cron may be the way to go. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null