Null mailer - no notifications for contacts that want to view CGIs only (maybe notif to an ML)

[Jeremy Russell]

I you do not need any form of notification at all for a user that can
'view' nagios,  it is as simple as creating a user (by whatever
authentication mean you use,  I authenticate to active Directory in my
environment)  and then define in the cgi.cfg what the user can see.
There is no need to create a contact for that user for them to view the
cgi's.
 


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	From: Stanley Hopcroft
[mailto:Stanley.Hopcroft at IPAustralia.Gov.AU] 
	Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2004 7:46 PM
	To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
	Subject: [Nagios-users] Null mailer - no notifications for
contacts that want to view CGIs only (maybe notif to an ML)
	
	

	Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,
	
	Does anyone else have a situation where contacts (ie those who
want to
	view the Nag CGIs) do _not_ want individual notifications -
perhaps
	because one of the other contacts is a non personal contact that
	corresponds to a mailing list and those responsible for the
host/service
	read this mailing list ?
	
	Alternatively, a site may require that instead of personal
notification,
	all host and service faults are entered into a 'request
tracking' or
	'service desk' system but authenticated access to the CGIs is
still
	required for the host/service administrators.
	
	I have dealt with this by defining a null notification command
('test 1
	-eq 1' but maybe the Bourne shell ':' ['A null command that
returns a 0
	(true) exit value.'] is better) but Nag must still fork a shell
to run
	this.
	
	Is a better way simply to
	
	- not define notification commands - leave them out -  in the
contact
	template
	
	- individually define notification commands for each contact
that
	requires notification ?
	
	If that is the case, some of the benefit of the contacts
template is
	lost since most contacts will require notification. OTOH it
seems quite
	sensible and feasable to do this.
	
	Is it possible to define a notification command that does _not_
oblige
	Nagios to fork /bin/sh ?
	
	What do others do about this ?
	
	Is there any interest in hacking the 1.x notification code to
simply
	skip further processing ('No-op, no-op the angel did say) for a
token
	representing a 'null mailer' ?
	
	Perhaps a better way of dealing with this and other related
problems is
	by having more than one level of inheritance from templates -
many
	templates can be constructed that inherit attributes from any
parent
	template and its parents. This may in fact be how it is done in
Nag 2.x.
	
	Yours sincerely.
	
	--
	
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	Stanley Hopcroft
	
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	'...No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece
of the
	continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the
sea,
	Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as
if a
	manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death
diminishes
	me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send
to know
	for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee...'
	
	from Meditation 17, J Donne.
	
	
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