send a test page

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Rossella Mariotti-Jones
> Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 11:33 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net; nagiosplug-
> help at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] send a test page
> 
> Hi all, does anybody how to send test pages to pagers from within
Nagios?
> I refuse to think that the only way to do it is setup a test group and
> unplug a box, there's gotta be another way! Thanks in advance.

Sorry, there's no built-in mechanism to test notifications without
manipulating the check data for a host or service. You could always run
the notification command from the command line but that's not exactly
the same and not really a valid test all the way through.

My suggestion would be to set up a test host and service with active
checks disabled and check_commands that will return CRITICAL when
executed (check_dummy for example).  Set the contact groups
appropriately for the notifications that you want to test. When you want
to activate the test, use the web interface to enable checks of that
host/service. When the test is done, use the web interface to disable
checks of that host/service. This would actually be a more accurate test
than hitting a 'Test Notifications' link in the GUI IMHO.

--
Marc



-------------------------------------------------------
SF.Net email is sponsored by:
Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. 
Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very
own Sony(tm)PSP.  Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php
_______________________________________________
Nagios-users mailing list
Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users
::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. 
::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null