notifications not useful

[Andreas Ericsson]

Marco Borsani wrote:
> Hi everybody !
> 
> I have following problem with my technicians.
> 
> I have many check_tcp on same host. When CRITICAL messages arrive (via
> epager or via mail) the technicians can't see which ports have problems
> because the only information that they read is:
> "Socket timeout after 10 seconds"
> We have not the same problem when they receive OK messages because in that
> kind of messages NAGIOS write the port number:
> "TCP OK - 0.012 second response time on port 8080"
> 
> Actually I can't modify "service name" (that could solve this problem
> putting the port number inside it!), have you got any idea about this
> situation?
> 

Just out of curiousity, why can't you change the service_description 
variable? It's there for the sole purpose of identifying the service to 
nagios AND the technicians.

> Regards
> 
> Marco

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andreas.ericsson at op5.se


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