Logging of username with external commands

Thomas Guyot-Sionnest Thomas at zango.com
Tue Jun 20 18:57:47 CEST 2006


I think you should forbid them from using Disable Notifications command and
rather use Acknolege and Scheduled Downtime commands.

Disable Notifications should only be used for long term deactivation

Thomas

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-devel-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net 
> [mailto:nagios-devel-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf 
> Of Dirk De Coninck
> Sent: June 20, 2006 11:36
> To: nagios-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-devel] Logging of username with external commands
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> What do I need to do to have the username added to the nagios logfile 
> for every external command?
> My problem is that the Windows system admins (they all have their own 
> account) disable notifications and/or service checks without adding a 
> comment and on top of that they forget to enable thing afterwards.
> The logfile only shows the time/date and the external command, but no 
> clue as to who did it.
> 
> Also, is it possible to add the username to the notification that is 
> sent whenever somebody acknowledges an event?
> 
> Last, something like a "reset flapping state" would be really 
> helpful. I 
> used to stop the nagios process and edit the status.dat file to change
> "is_flapping=1" to 0 (bad practice however), but I found a 
> workaround by 
> disabling the flap detection and enabling it again using the web 
> interface for the specific service or host.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Dirk.
> 
> 
> 
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