dependancy's and notification macro's

[Carroll, Jim P [Contractor]]

The immediate problem with what you propose, is that certain devices (eg,
pagers, SMS) are incapable of receiving long messages.  One of the design
goals of defining parents (IMHO, through observation) was to cut down on
notifications.  Suggesting to make a trade-off by increasing the verbosity
of a single notification seems to me to be a step backwards.

But what about this:  In the host definition for the router, why not put
something meaningful in the alias declaration?  Something like:

define host {
	host_name	router01
	use		router-tmpl
	alias		Router for 20 critical hosts
	address	1.2.3.4
	}

Alternatively, make alias something like:

	alias		Router for host1-host20

or perhaps:

	alias		Router responsible for sleepless nights

Surely you can put something in there which is a pleasant balance between
'brief' and 'informative'.

Food for thought.

jc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Stankaitis [mailto:chris.stankaitis at datawire.net]
> Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 10:30 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] dependancy's and notification macro's
> 
> 
> 
> Hey there;
> 
> We have Nagios setup so that if a parent router goes down the 
> "children" 
> don't notify, so that we only get 1 e-mail about the router 
> rather then 
> 21 from the router + the 20 servers behind it.  We would like 
> to have it 
> setup that when a notification goes out that it also lists the 
> dependancies of the host that is down... to say something like
> 
> "Router A is down the following hosts are dependant on that router - 
> HOST1, HOST2, ETC.."
> 
> I looked in the docs about USING MACRO's and didn't see a macro for 
> dependancy's
> 
> Does anyone know if there is a way to get Nagios to notify in 
> the way I 
> have described above??
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> --Chris
> 
> 
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