notifications seperate for warnings, critical

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Emmett Hogan [mailto:EmmettH at Examen.com]
> Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 2:21 PM
> To: Marc Powell
> Cc: Alan Maxwell; nagios-list
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] notifications seperate for warnings,
critical
> 
> Marc Powell wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 		-----Original Message-----
> 		From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:nagios-
> users-
> 		admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Alan Maxwell
> 		Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 1:39 PM
> 		To: nagios-list
> 		Subject: [Nagios-users] notifications seperate for
warnings,
> critical
> 
> 		Is there a way to have one service def, have warning
emails go
> to one
> 		contact
> 		and critical emails for the same service go to a
different
> address?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 	Not within nagios but it can certain be done easily enough. The
> 	host/service-notify-by-email commands just call external
programs
> and
> 	pass them certain bits of information ($NOTIFICATIONTYPE$,
> $HOSTALIAS$,
> 	$SERVICEDESC$, $CONTACTEMAIL$, etc). A simple little script that
> takes
> 	those parameters and emails different people based on
$SERVICESTATE$
> 	should be pretty straightforward.
> 
> 	--
> 	Marc
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Why can't it?
> 
> Won't this work:
> 
> 1) Set up the two contacts like this: (NOTE The "options")....
> 
> #WARNINGS ONLY CONTACT...
> define contact{
>         contact_name                    warning_contact
>         alias                           WARNINGS Only Contact
>         service_notification_period     24x7
>         host_notification_period        24x7
>         service_notification_options    w,r
>         service_notification_commands
notify-by-email,notify-by-epager
>         host_notification_commands      host-notify-by-email,
host-notify-
> by-epager
>         email
warning_recipient at someplace.com
>         pager                           warning_pager at someplace.com
>         }
> 
> 
> 
> #CRITICAL ONLY CONTACT...
> define contact{
>         contact_name                    critical_contact
>         alias                           CRITICAL Only Contact
>         service_notification_period     24x7
>         host_notification_period        24x7
>         service_notification_options    c,r
>         host_notification_options       d,r
>         service_notification_commands
notify-by-email,notify-by-epager
>         host_notification_commands      host-notify-by-email,
host-notify-
> by-epager
>         email
critical_recipient at someplace.com
>         pager                           critical_pager at someplace.com
>         }
> 
> 2)  Create a contactgroup that  has BOTH of these contacts in it.
> define contactgroup{
>         contactgroup_name       unix-admins
>         alias                   Unix Administrators
>         members                 warning_contact,crictical_contact
>         }
> 
> 3)  Associate the new contact group "unix-admins" with the services in
> question.
> 
> It seems to work for us.

You're absolutely right. I'm so used to doing creative things with
Nagios that I sometimes forget basic functionality. My apologies...

--
Marc 


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