Any way to have Nagios send epages only when host or service is critical (not for warnings?)

[Jason Lancaster]

The problem described does not have a work-around listed on any of those pages -- they are general references for basic configuration and information on how nagios works. What the original post stated and what I obliviously missed as well, was the fact that they wanted different rules to govern the pager notification than the email notification. Nagios' host and service notification_options filters globally for both email and pager notifications.

The only true workaround would be to build a more advanced add-on to Nagios to handle notifications based on additional filters. I've seen talk of other notification apps around here...

-Jason
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Brian Johnson 
  To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net 
  Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 1:41
  Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Any way to have Nagios send epages only when host or service is critical (not for warnings?)


  OK...

  I just started using Nagios last week and find it to be FANTASTIC. Even I know the answer to this one.

  RTFM!!!

  Services - http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/xodtemplate.html#service

  Hosts - http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/xodtemplate.html#host

  Notifications - http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/notifications.html

  This information is in the referenced documentation. Please read it before just bailing out to the list.



    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: sobrien at ci.bend.or.us 
    To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net 
    Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 2:23 PM
    Subject: Fw: [Nagios-users] Any way to have Nagios send epages only when host or service is critical (not for warnings?)



    Anyone have a solution for the issue of wanting to be notified of warnings but only wanting to paged when the service/host goes critical? 

    Steve O'Brien
    City of Bend
    Network Administrator
    sobrien at ci.bend.or.us
    541-322-6393

    ----- Forwarded by Steve OBrien/Bend on 07/21/2003 12:20 PM ----- 
          "Jason Lancaster" <jlancaster at affinity.com> 
          07/21/2003 09:50 AM 
         To <sobrien at ci.bend.or.us>  
                cc  
                Subject Re: [Nagios-users] Any way to have Nagios send epages only when host or service is critical (not for warnings?) 

                

         



    Hmm, you've stumped me. I can think of work-arounds but I cannot think of a
    direct way to do this within Nagios.

    -You could add another contact and into contacts.cfg.
    Contact1: jlancaster
    Contact2: jlancaster-pager
    I would then define different host and service notification options for
    each. Personally, I never envisioned needing this but it's a major
    limitation on Nagios templates and in my current database implementation.
    Doh.

    -You could also write a wrapper for the pager notification command and
    search the $HOSTSTATE$ variable for critical notifications.

    -Additionally, you could take the second workaround a step further and
    create a more advanced contact notification module. I know I have seen
    discussions with regards to the development and use of more advanced
    notification systems before on this list.

    You might want to post a followup to your first post reiterating what you
    said to me below. (You're welcome to post what I wrote too)

    Let me know what you come up with.

    Jason Lancaster
    Intranet Administrator, Affinity Internet
    http://www.affinity.com

    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: sobrien at ci.bend.or.us
    To: Jason Lancaster
    Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 12:21
    Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Any way to have Nagios send epages only when
    host or service is critical (not for warnings?)



    That appears to be a setting for notifying only when host is in a particular
    state.  I want to know when the warning states occur but I only want them
    emailed, I do not want to be paged.  I only want to be paged when it is
    critical.

    Steve O'Brien
    City of Bend
    Network Administrator
    sobrien at ci.bend.or.us
    541-322-6393


    "Jason Lancaster" <jlancaster at affinity.com>
    07/21/2003 09:21 AM To<nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>,
    <sobrien at ci.bend.or.us>
    cc
    SubjectRe: [Nagios-users] Any way to have Nagios send epages only when host
    or service is critical (not for warnings?)







    Yes, this type of functionality defined in the contacts.cfg
    service_notification_options and host_notification_options. Read
    http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/xodtemplate.html#contact
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: sobrien at ci.bend.or.us
    To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
    Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 11:35
    Subject: [Nagios-users] Any way to have Nagios send epages only when host or
    service is critical (not for warnings?)


    I want to have nagios only page people when services or hosts are critical,
    I only want email when they are in a warning state.

    TIA

    Steve O'Brien

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