RFE: Virtual Contact

Russell Adams RLAdams at Kelsey-Seybold.com
Tue Oct 29 20:18:46 CET 2002


I must admit, the ability to use the web interface to notify a contact
or contact group with a custom message has been a frequent request
from my users.

Russell

On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 10:54:22AM -0800, Jonathan Rozes wrote:
> Why not just have a script rewrite/replace your contactgroups.cfg file and
> restart nagios as needed? It would be a lot less complex than adding a bunch
> of calendaring junk to the package. You could achieve the same result
> rewriting/replacing timeperiods.cfg.
> 
> I'm not sure of the usefulness of a "send a message" option either. Why not
> just send email to the person?
> 
> Resolving who is on call right now could easily be done as well using an
> external script, or if you want to see it in nagios, a plugin that simply
> culls the info out of the config file and returns OK with the name of the
> current contact(s).
> 
> jonathan
> 
> +++ Jonathan Rozes, Manager, Information Technology, Will Vinton Studios
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Carroll, Jim P [Contractor] [mailto:jcarro10 at sprintspectrum.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 8:55 AM
> > To: 'nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net'
> > Subject: [Nagios-users] RFE: Virtual Contact
> > 
> > 
> > (As if the leads didn't already have enough to ponder....)
> > 
> > I was wondering if it would be possible to have the following 
> > Request For
> > Enhancement in a future release of Nagios:
> > 
> >    'Virtual Contact'
> > 
> > Features:
> > 
> > - a VC (Virtual Contact) could be assigned to a real contact
> > - this VC would (most likely) be the first to receive the pager/e-mail
> > notifications
> > - users who could change who the VC is assigned to would be 
> > restricted to a
> > 'VC group' (perhaps this would simply be a matter of adding 
> > the VC to the
> > same contact group)
> > - depending on permissions, a user could send a short (120 
> > character) msg to
> > the VC (or to any user, if this makes sense) from the web 
> > interface; this
> > msg would go to the pager, to e-mail, to SMS... whatever's 
> > defined for the
> > VC (/user)
> > - optionally (via config files) a user could determine who 
> > the VC resolves
> > to
> > 
> > I'm not sure how many organizations out there have a rotating 
> > "on call"
> > admin, but this is the case within my group.  A feature such 
> > as the above
> > would be useful.  "Blue sky" wish list, of course.  ;)
> > 
> > Food for thought.
> > 
> > jc
> > 
> > 
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