contacts e-mail and paging

Gregg Strickland gstrickland at live365.com
Thu Sep 2 23:31:06 CEST 2004


Thanks for you help... that's the direction I was headed, but wanted to
check with the nagios community first.

Anyone that has played with 2.0 know if they handle this differently?  I'll
most likely be migrating to that when it's stable but haven't had time to
play with it.

-greggs 

-----Original Message-----
From: Sean Dilda [mailto:agrajag at dragaera.net] 
Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 2:07 PM
To: Gregg Strickland
Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] contacts e-mail and paging

On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 12:35, Gregg Strickland wrote:
> I currently have nagios set up so that each contact has both a pager 
> and an e-mail defined as well as the commands to send to both.  This 
> works and for every "event" I get the proper page and e-mail.  The 
> problem is that there are some events that are page worthy events and 
> others that are just e-mail events.  Do I have to create a different 
> contact for the same person and then define in the service who to 
> notify... or is there a way to define at the service definition what
notification command to use?
> 
> The other problem is that I've been asked by the customer to have 
> e-mail alerts 24x7, but only page during certain hours.  Is there a 
> way to do this inside nagios?  I was thinking about having the 
> notification command go through a script filter that blocks pages
depending on the time of day.

I had a similar problem, and ended up doing multiple contacts per person.
In my case I had several services/hosts that I wanted to be paged and
emailed about.  However, there are some machines that are less critical, so
I only want to be paged by them during work hours, but emailed no matter
what time of day.  So I setup an email contact for myself that has a 24x7
notification period, a pager contact that has a business hours notification
period, and an emergency pager contact that has a 24x7 notification period.
I then have a high priority and low priority contact group, each of which
includes the email contact and one of the pager contacts.

Hope this helps.  Yes its a pain, but that's life.


Another solution would be to write a wrapper script for your notify commands
that wouldn't notify based on time of day.  But I felt that option was even
less elegant.





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