some feature requests

[Brad O'Hara]

Volker Maibaum wrote:
>> Brad O'Hara wrote:
>>     
>>> In line.
>>>
>>> Andreas Ericsson wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Volker Maibaum wrote:
>>>>  
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> I have some feature requests for nagios:
>>>>>
>>>>> - set contactgroups on host basis for services. So that if no
>>>>>           
> contact is
>   
>>>>> set for a service check the host contact group is used. That would
>>>>>           
> make
>   
>>>>> configuration a lot easier.
>>>>>
>>>>>     
>>>>>           
>>>> This I like.
>>>>
>>>>  
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> - It would be nice if it would be possible to categorise the
>>>>>           
> criticality
>   
>>>>> of services and hosts. E.g. critical / uncritical / unimportant.
>>>>>           
> So that
>   
>>>>> the operating could easily decide if they have to call somebody
>>>>>           
> during
>   
>>>>> midnight or if the problem can wait till the next morning.
>>>>> I know this could also be done by host and servicegroups, but it
>>>>>           
> would
>   
>>>>> be nicer to have this as a parameter. Depending on the category
>>>>>           
> the
>   
>>>>> host/service could be highlighted with different colours in the
>>>>> web-frontend.
>>>>>     
>>>>>           
>>>> This I don't. It's very, very simple to make the right contacts
>>>>         
> the 
>   
>>>> contacts of critical hosts and services and have any script you
>>>>         
> want 
>   
>>>> do the actual contacting, so adding complexity to the core to give 
>>>> another way of doing the same thing doesn't sound very useful to
>>>>         
> me.
>   
>>>>   
>>>>         
>>> True enough.  Our problem is that we have operations staff monitor 
>>> Nagios and notify people off hours based on how critical the
>>>       
> "resource" 
>   
>>> is not the severity of the check.
>>>
>>>       
>> Ok. Then you're not using the first alternative, which would be to 
>> create a notification script for the contacts supposed to be on call
>>     
> for 
>   
>> the night. Nagios is fully capable of dialing your technical staff
>>     
> and 
>   
>> telling them that "this and this unit isn't functioning". I think
>>     
> you're 
>   
>> also aware that you can use several different notification-commands 
>> (they don't have to notify, they can do anything you can make a
>>     
> computer 
>   
>> do, really), and this in combination with the possibility of setting 
>> several or different contactgroups for each host and service is, imo,
>>     
> a 
>   
>> better solution than to implement configuration options. Mostly since 
>> those options will easily become outdated, but also because of the
>>     
> need 
>   
>> to add more bloat to the core of Nagios.
>>
>>     
>
> The problem is not only about notification. I could implement two email
> scripts, one that writes in the subject "critical" and one that writes
> "not so important". But if the staff looks at the web-frontend of nagios
> they don't see any difference. A "kernel panic" appears in the same way
> as "the soda machine is out of water". The operating staff that looks at
> nagios does not now that the soda machine is not critical. But they have
> to decide if we have a critical situation and if they have to call an
> expert.
>  
> regards, 
>
> Volker	
>
>   
Exactly why we built it into the naming convention, i.e. NSsoft--NC(or 
CR)--aerv1-anm-1 (owning group--criticality--host name/service name).
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