manual alerts

[Erwin.Mascardo at intelsat.com]

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>From: nagios at mm.quex.org [mailto:nagios at mm.quex.org] 
>Sent: Wednesday, 06 April, 2005 09:17
>To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] manual alerts
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>I'd find the ability to send messages to the contacts specified
>for a host or service quite useful, too. It can take a bit of
>work to configure Nagios' contacts to be correct, and duplicating
>that (and keeping it in sync) with a mailing list seems like a
>bit of effort one shouldn't need to go to.
>
>In particular it could be useful for commenting on a problem;
>e.g. providing additional information after someone has already
>acknowledged it, or further comments after it's been resolved.
>It's halfway there, as you can add comments to hosts and services,
>but they aren't sent to others unless it's a problem acknowledgement.
>
>Mind you, Nagios is designed to monitor networks, not to be a
>collaboration / messaging server. It might make sense to implement
>something like this as a separate system, and then have a Nagios
>notification command to send alerts into this other system.
>
>Even so, being able to send arbitrary 'notifications' could be
>useful to a number of people, and it probably wouldn't be
>difficult for someone familiar with Nagios' workings to add the
>functionality.

Would manually submitting a passive check result serve your needs? (Services
only in 1.x, hosts also in 2.x.) You can set the status manually to a level
which would trigger a notification, and supply a message corresponding to
the "output" from the service/host check. No additional functionality
required, and it's available from the CGI or by dropping a check result
directly into the command file.


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