Feature request - Downtime Notification

[Ethan Galstad]

Tarrah Gledhill wrote:
> I would like the following feature, but have not found any reference to 
> it's existence.
> 
> Would it be possible to make a Scheduled Downtime send notification 
> warning contacts of the impending downtime as well as notification at 
> the start/end of the downtime?
> 
> example:
>  - Downtime scheduled for Host/Service on date/time
>  - Scheduled downtime on host/service - started/stopped/cancelled
> 
> Thanks,
> Tarrah

This is an excellent idea and I'll put it on the blocks for 3.0. 
Notifying contacts when downtime starts/stops/gets cancelled is easy... 
the $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ macro will be set to one of the following:

	DOWNTIMESTART
	DOWNTIMEEND
	DOWNTIMECANCELLED

Does anyone have objections to this?

Sending notification of impending downtime is difficult, and I don't 
know if we can do it.  The reason for this is that some downtime entries 
do not start at a specific time (e.g. flexible and triggered downtime). 
  Also, there could be multiple overlapping scheduled downtime entries 
for a particular host/service that could complicate this even further.

A possible solution would be allowing for "custom" notifications that 
can be initiated by users through the web interface.  The 
$NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ macro could be set to "CUSTOM" and author/comment 
data could be available in the $xACKAUTHOR$ $xACKDATA$ macros (or 
perhaps new macros are in order).  Custom notifications might be useful 
for a number of reasons - e.g. relaying updates on the status of fixes. 
  When downtime is scheduled, an option could be added to the web 
interface that would allow a custom notification to be sent out 
notifying contacts of the downtime that was scheduled.

How does the custom notification feature sound to folks?

Ethan Galstad,
Nagios Developer
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