Custom notification problem

[Subhendu Ghosh]

On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Ben Whaley wrote:

> Greetings all,
> 
> I have a rather unique notification problem that I have been unable to find
> a way to address. I am checking total processes, imap processes, sendmail
> processes, etc, as well as system load. I would like to be notified if a)
> load is CRITICAL for 3 checks (max_check_attempts=3) or b) load is CRITICAL
> and any other service is CRITICAL for just 1 check (max_check_attempts=1).
> Is there any way to set this up?
> 
> Here were some of my ideas:
> 
> Use event handlers. When load enters SOFT CRITICAL, execute the handler that
> checks if any other service is CRITICAL for that host. If so, notify
> immediately. The problem is then disabling the notification for when load
> and the other service enter their respective HARD states.
> 
> Service Dependencies. Have load depend on other services. I didn't think
> this one through very carefully because it would require a very large number
> of definitions - load depends on every service on every host. Wildcards
> wouldn't work in this case.
> 
> Anyone have other suggestions?

I would seriously consider ignoring soft states.  It is not meant for 
end-user consumption.

Try the check_cluster plugin from contrib to aggregate hard results from 
multiple services.

-sg



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