Notification options

[Schmitz, Carsten]

Hi,

Have not tried this yet, but it should be possible.

In the contacts.cfg, for each contact the host_notification_commands and service_notification_commands are not mandatory. So you could have your network admins with host_notification_commands and your DBAs with service_notification_commands only (unless there are other machines where the network admins need to monitor services as well). But this is probably a dirty hack and would be asking for trouble.

The way I do it (using Nagios 1.2, and having the quote "Nagios is a service monitor, not a host monitor" ringing in my ears ;) is to have a service "Ping" defined for every host, which alerts all the net admins via a contact group when the machine stops responding to ICMP (usually meaning: its dead).

Whatever command/method you may be using for the host check, you could probably turn it into a service check and enjoy contact group flexibility.

Regards

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Carsten Schmitz 					                  AEGON N.V.
System Administrator 				               AEGONplein 50
Group Information Management			            2591TV The Hague
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-----Original Message-----
From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of Jennifer
Fountain
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 4:41 PM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] Notification options


Hi All:
I have a question concerning host/service notifications.  I would like
to configure host up/down alerts to go to the network admins and service
issues sent to the DBAs (such has sql not up, etc).  Is this possible?  

Kind Regards,

Jennifer Fountain
Systems Administrator/Security
R&B Distribution
3400 E Walnut Street
Colmar, PA  18915



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