Trouble with timeperiods on call rotation

Nagios Nagios Configuration support
1

I am trying to set up on call rotating notifications in 3.0.1

I borrowed from the example in the docs at docs/oncallrotation.html

My timeperiods are:

define timeperiod{
alias Weekly on call rotation schedule 1
timeperiod_name oncall-1
2008-04-11 / 14 00:00-24:00 ; Every other Friday
2008-04-12 / 14 00:00-24:00 ; Every other Saturday
2008-04-13 / 14 00:00-24:00 ; Every other Sunday
2008-04-14 / 14 00:00-24:00 ; Every other Monday
2008-04-15 / 14 00:00-24:00 ; Every other Tuesday
2008-04-16 / 14 00:00-24:00 ; Every other Wednesday
2008-04-17 / 14 00:00-24:00 ; Every other Thursday
}

define timeperiod{
alias Weekly on call rotation schedule 2
timeperiod_name oncall-2
2008-04-18 / 14 00:00-24:00 ; Every other Friday
2008-04-19 / 14 00:00-24:00 ; Every other Saturday
2008-04-20 / 14 00:00-24:00 ; Every other Sunday
2008-04-21 / 14 00:00-24:00 ; Every other Monday
2008-04-22 / 14 00:00-24:00 ; Every other Tuesday
2008-04-23 / 14 00:00-24:00 ; Every other Wednesday
2008-04-24 / 14 00:00-24:00 ; Every other Thursday
}

There are two things messed up here. First is these 2 timeperiods show up in the UI (View Config) as being 2 months earlier. So they start at 02-11 instead of 04-11.
Second thing is, they don’t seem to work.

What I am doing is assigning the timeperiod to my contacts:

define contact{
contact_name myUser1
use generic-contact
email [email protected]
service_notification_period oncall-1
host_notification_period oncall-1
}

define contact{
contact_name myUser2
use generic-contact
email [email protected]
service_notification_period oncall-2
host_notification_period oncall-2
}

With this notifications go to both contacts when they should only be going to one at a time.

Anyone know what is going on here?

Thanks,
Josh

2

Never mind, I figured it out. User error!

3

Question: How did you resolve the error you described about the UI (First is these 2 timeperiods show up in the UI (View Config) as being 2 months earlier. So they start at 02-11 instead of 04-11.) ?

4

I also came up against the 2-month off view-config issue… Using version 3.0.3…

I guess I can test to see if the notifications based off the rotated timeperiods work as intended, and that this issue is only a display (view config) issue??? I have old shell scripts that swap the timeperiods.cfg external to nagios as a last resort if this feature isn’t working