Two contacts using the same HTTP auth?

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Paul L. Allen
> Sent: Monday, August 22, 2005 4:22 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Re: Two contacts using the same HTTP auth?
> 
> C. Bensend writes:
> 
> > 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.  :)
> 
> The default notification command essentially shells out to your
> command-line mail utility and sends the appropriate lines of data.
> Have it instead shell to a custom script that determines if it's a
real
> host or the fake host and over-rides the contact address with the
> appropriate blackberry address if it's the fake host.  Unless you're
> comfortable with shell/perl scripting go with the idea you already
have.
> :)

Yup, this is how I'd do it. An alternate method would be to add their
blackberry address to their contact e-mail (comma separated) and have
your notification script chop off everything after the comma if it's not
their test host. Either way a little bit of scripting is going to be
necessary. 


--
Marc 


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