more granular notification

[Brian Huffman]

Here's a scenario:

We monitor printers and from Nagios' perspective, they're just another
"host".  However, I don't want printer down/up notifications to go to my
pager, but I would like them to go to my email.  However I *do* want
UNIX systems host notifications to go to my pager.  I don't know of a
simple way to do this in Nagios w/o creating a separate contact.  In Big
Brother it would have been easier.  If all my printers had a similar
name prefix, I could just say "print*:conn:" (or something like that -
don't remember the syntax exactly) and specify that those events should
go to email.

Thanks!
Brian

-----Original Message-----
From: Subhendu Ghosh [mailto:sghosh at sghosh.org] 
Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 10:19 AM
To: Brian Huffman
Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] more granular notification

On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, Brian Huffman wrote:

> All,
>
> I've been looking for some time around the net, on nagiosexchange,
etc.
> and so far have not found a method to do more granular notification in
> nagios.  I remember that Big Brother had a configuration file in which
> you could specify exactly who should be emailed / paged and when it
> should happen.  It could be split out according to host / service as
> well as severity and it was fairly flexible.  Wildcards could be used,
> so it was easy to specify downtimes for a group of hosts or one host
> depending on your needs.  Is there any such thing for nagios?  I could
> write a shim that is specified as the host/service notification
> commands, but I'd like to be sure that nothing currently exists.
>
> Thanks,
> Brian

for each service/host there is a contact group. you can add as many or
as 
few contacts to each contact group.  It is quite flexible and granular. 
Don't see what is missing here.

downtimes are different from notifications.
flexibility in downtime scheduling requires a little script writing to 
make the appropriate entries.

-- 

-sg


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