Service notification_period Problem?

Nagios Nagios Configuration support
1

I am having trouble getting Nagios 2.3 to truly treat the notification_period different from the check_period for a service. I am using the default 24x7 check_period which works without issue. However, I am trying to create a window of a few hours in the morning where, even if a service even is triggered, it will not send out a notification. However, it still continues to send our alerts on the 24x7 schedule. Am I missing something obvious in the definition? Are others able to do this successfully?

Much thanks in advance.

define service{
host_name monitorbosin02
service_description TEST Oracle Archive log Gap between orabosin01 and orasheq01
check_command check_oracle_arch_gap!orabosin01!oraasheq01.asheq!3!5
max_check_attempts 1
normal_check_interval 5
retry_check_interval 1
check_period 24x7
notification_interval 5
notification_period 22x7Oracle
notification_options u,c,r
contact_groups operations
}
define timeperiod{
timeperiod_name 22x7Oracle
alias 22x7Oracle
sunday 00:00-02:00,09:30-24:00
monday 00:00-02:00,09:30-24:00
tuesday 00:00-02:00,09:30-24:00
wednesday 00:00-02:00,09:30-24:00
thursday 00:00-02:00,09:30-24:00
friday 00:00-02:00,09:30-24:00
saturday 00:00-02:00,09:30-24:00
}

2

I see that you have defined a service check to use this period. But are your notificatios for a host or service being down? If it’s for a host, then that is why. You need to use that period for the host definition also.

3

The host remains up, and it is specifically just for the notifications for the service itself that is being problematic. If I define the check_period with the same timeperiod, it skips that period correctly. However, the notification_period does not seem to be overriding the check_period from my experiments with this and a few other services.