Two contacts using the same HTTP auth?

[C. Bensend]

> The question isn't quite clear but in a nutshell I interpret it to be
> the following --
>
> 'I have a host that doesn't send notifications that two contacts, who
> happen to be the same person, need to see."

Um...  No, my question wasn't clear then.  :/  Sorry.

These users just got new handhelds (Blackberries).  They want to
play with the notifications until they get their filters
correct.

So, I thought it would be pretty cool to set up a fake host that
is always down, with notifications disabled.  When they want to
test again, they enable the notifications, Nagios fires off an
alert, and they can see what happens.  When they're done testing,
they can just disable notifications again.

This fake host's contact is the new contact I set up to alert
their Blackberries.  Their other contacts are used for paging
them; I wanted to avoid alerting to that contact as well while
they play with this.

So, in a nutshell:

1)  The fake host alerts only their Blackberry contact

2)  Unfortunately, their normal contact cannot see the fake host,
    since their normal contact (their HTTP auth username) is not
    a contact for the fake host

3)  Hence, I'd need a second HTTP auth username/password for them
    to log in with, to manipulate the notifications for the fake
    host, which I'd like to avoid if possible

I hope that's clearer...  It seems like an overly complex solution,
but I couldn't come up with a better way to do it.  I'm open for
suggestions.  :)

Benny


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