general notifications setup question.

[Jeff McKeon]

Thanks for the info...

I'm still a little confused though..

What command should I use (if any) if I wanted check_ups to go critical
as soon as the ups was on battery power?

As for the notifications.. I should have something like this...

contact = ups_alert with options w,c,u,r
contactgroup = UPS
make ups_alert a member of UPS
set notify by pager for contact ups_alert.

Hostgroup = UPS_01 with contact_group set to UPS
Host= MIS01 (the pc that is connected to all the ups')
MIS01 is a member of UPS

Wouldn't this send a page to ups_alert for every warning that occured on
MIS01?

MIS01 is also a meber of Hostgroup "CK_servers"

is this ok?

Thanks,

Jeff 

On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 10:40, Subhendu Ghosh wrote:
> On 11 Apr 2003, Jeff McKeon wrote:
> 
> > Ok,  thanks to the help of several people on this list I've got nagios
> > monitoring all the UPS's in my data center.  I've got an 8 port serial
> > card in my nagios server that connects to each of my 7 ups's.  So I have
> > 7 check_ups services set up directly on my nagios machine.
> > 
> > The issue I have is this.  My sys admin has a pager that get's paged
> > with notifications from nagios.  I only have the pager set to get
> > critical pages because if it received every warning, he'd woken up all
> > night for non critical issues. 
> > 
> > A UPS going to battery power however is a critical issue and time
> > sensitive so I DO want these warning notification to be sent to his
> > pager.  Is there an elegant way to do this?
> > 
> > Also, I'm not sure I fully understand the -w and -c settings for
> > check_ups.  I know they are the number of seconds for warning state and
> > critical state but what determines a warning state and a critical state?
> > 
> > If I have it set for -w 30 and -c 120 does that mean that when the UPS
> > goes to battery power and stays there for 30 seconds, its a warning
> > state?  Then once it's been on battery for > 120 seconds it goes to
> > critical?  Also what does this translate into in terms of when the
> > notifications actually go out.  Is it 30 seconds (for warning
> > notification) and 5 tries?  And if there are 1 minute between tries that
> > would put the first warning sent out at roughtly 5.5 minutes after going
> > to battery power?
> > 
> > A lot of questions I know, thanks for any help you can give...
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Jeff
> > 
> 
> Took a look at the code to refresh my memory - 
> 
> -w and -c only apply if you specify a variable to check (LINE, BATTPCT, 
> LOADPCT) using the -v option (variable not verbose - doc needs a fix)
> (You are probably not using -v)
> 
> 
> you will get a CRITICAL if "On Battery && Low Battery"
> you will get a WARNING if "On Battery" OR "Low Battery" OR "Replace Battery"
> 
> (code needs a bit of cleanup for the help)
> 
> I would setup up another contactgroup/contact for the UPS such that the 
> warning messages will get paged.
> 
> -- 
> -sg
> 
> 
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