Sound Alerts and Nagios2.0b2

[jeff vier]

On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 16:09 -0400, Chris Stankaitis wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > No, I wouldn't do it as an event handler.  I'd do it as a contact.  I'd 
> > go into misccommands.cfg, create a command called 
> > notify-by-email-and-sound, then I'd create a shell script on the system 
> > that did the normal email notification and also played the sound.  Then 
> > I'd change my contact entry to use that as the notification_command.
> > 
> > In other words, I would use the existing notification setup in nagios to 
> > play the sound.  Then it can have different sounds for acknowledgments, 
> > etc.
> > 
> > 
> 
> That won't work, the nagios server that generates the e-mail and serves 
> the web pages is located in a colo about 20 minutes away from the 
> office, that will not help the NOC guys here in the office.

What?

The 'contact' script would be sshing to the tech's desktop and playing a
sound.  How does distance from the server matter?



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