Sound Alerts and Nagios2.0b2

[Sean Dilda]

Chris Stankaitis wrote:
> 
> Sound alerts seem pretty broken in Nagios.. this just may be me but I 
> don't think they work very logically.
> 
> it seems like an alert is played every two minutes when the browser is 
> refreshed regardless of the network status, just as annoying an alert is 
> played pretty much anytime you navigate around Nagios.
> 
> Alerts don't seem to follow standard nagios 'alerting' logic I.E. it 
> doesn't seem to me that the alerts know when to play an when not to play 
> unlike the rest of the 'alerting' system, we have a few servers which we 
> only care about alerts during work hours, we have a few services which 
> we care about but don't need to be e-mailed about.. Sound alerts don't 
> seem to be smart enough to know when to play and when not to play
> 
> of course this is difficult to tell given that the "alert every 2 mins" 
> pollutes my ability to test properly.
> 
> has anyone gotten sound alerts to work effectively? I read a thread 
> about a month or two ago about it, but it didn't seem like there was a 
> good solution to this matter.

I'm not sure doing sound alerts from the web interface makes any sense 
to begin with.  If you want audible alerts, setup some ssh keys so 
nagios can ssh into a box in your office, then setup an alert script to 
ssh to your box and play the specified sound when an alert is issued.



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