Selective email/paging notifications

[Subhendu Ghosh]

On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Scot Jenkins wrote:

> I'm running Nagios 1.2 on FreeBSD 4.11 and Nagios 1.3 on Debian
> stable.  I've read over the documentation on notifications but didn't
> find an answer to my question.
>
> Given a specific service on a host, I'd like to only receive an email
> for warning and/or unknown status, yet receive email and pages for
> critical and recovery events.
>
> In my services.cfg, I've tried listing the service twice, once with:
>
> ...
> define service {
>        host_name                  gw
>        service_description        CPU
>        contact_groups             emails
>        notification_options       w,u
> ...
> }
>
> define service {
>        host_name                  gw
>        service_description        CPU
>        contact_groups             emails,pagers
>        notification_options       c,r
> ...
> }
>
>
> The Nagios preflight check (nagios -v nagios.cfg) errors with:
>
> Error: Service 'CPU' on host 'gw' has already been defined.
>
> In addition to this it would also be nice to be able to receive
> notifications during the day for a given service yet disable it at
> other times.  For example, if the CPU is high during the day email and
> page me, but I don't want to be paged in the middle of the night.  I
> know I could use different notification periods but how can I do that
> for the same service on a give host?
>
> Does anyone have suggestions/examples on how to implement either of
> these things?
>
> Thanks,
> Scot
>

Define a single service will notifications for all events.
Define different contacts that receive different notifications/coverage.

eg: contact_groups - admins

members of admin: email-w, email-day, pager-day, pager, email

email-day (only receives notifications during working-hours)
pager-day (only receives notifications during working-hours)
email-w: only receives w
email: only receives c,r
page: only receives c,r

-- 

-sg


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