Another issue : with this paging rule HOST=foo SERVICE=* EXSERVICE=procs REPEAT=24h TIME=W:0900:1800 DURATION>5m SCRIPT /tmp/alert.sh FORMAT=TEXT I got paged every 30 minutes with a red "disk" column, instead of 24 hours. The trace file contains this : 00014678 2005-02-23 16:22:23 Matching host:service:page 'foo:disk:supervision/hobbit' against rule line 1 00014678 2005-02-23 16:22:23 *** Match with 'HOST=foo SERVICE=* EXSERVICE=procs REPEAT=24h TIME=W:0900:1800 DURATION>5m SCRIPT /tmp/alert.sh FORMAT=TEXT COLOR=red,purple' *** 00014678 2005-02-23 16:22:23 Matching host:service:page 'foo:disk:supervision/hobbit' against rule line 1 00014678 2005-02-23 16:22:23 *** Match with 'HOST=foo SERVICE=* EXSERVICE=procs REPEAT=24h TIME=W:0900:1800 DURATION>5m SCRIPT /tmp/alert.sh FORMAT=TEXT COLOR=red,purple' *** 00000836 2005-02-23 16:22:23 send_alert foo:disk state Paging 00000836 2005-02-23 16:22:23 Matching host:service:page 'foo:disk:supervision/hobbit' against rule line 1 00000836 2005-02-23 16:22:23 *** Match with 'HOST=foo SERVICE=* EXSERVICE=procs REPEAT=24h TIME=W:0900:1800 DURATION>5m SCRIPT /tmp/alert.sh FORMAT=TEXT COLOR=red,purple' *** 00000836 2005-02-23 16:22:23 Matching host:service:page 'foo:disk:supervision/hobbit' against rule line 1 00000836 2005-02-23 16:22:23 *** Match with 'HOST=foo SERVICE=* EXSERVICE=procs REPEAT=24h TIME=W:0900:1800 DURATION>5m SCRIPT /tmp/alert.sh FORMAT=TEXT COLOR=red,purple' *** 00000836 2005-02-23 16:22:23 Script alert with command '/tmp/alert.sh' and recipient FORMAT=TEXT 00014678 2005-02-23 16:22:23 Matching host:service:page 'foo:disk:supervision/hobbit' against rule line 1 00014678 2005-02-23 16:22:23 *** Match with 'HOST=foo SERVICE=* EXSERVICE=procs REPEAT=24h TIME=W:0900:1800 DURATION>5m SCRIPT /tmp/alert.sh FORMAT=TEXT COLOR=red,purple' *** 00014678 2005-02-23 16:22:23 Matching host:service:page 'foo:disk:supervision/hobbit' against rule line 1 00014678 2005-02-23 16:22:23 *** Match with 'HOST=foo SERVICE=* EXSERVICE=procs REPEAT=24h TIME=W:0900:1800 DURATION>5m SCRIPT /tmp/alert.sh FORMAT=TEXT COLOR=red,purple' *** 00014678 2005-02-23 16:22:27 @@page foo:disk:supervision/hobbit=red -- Frédéric Mangeant