utilizing pager/email in single contact

[Terry]

Andy,

I neglected to say that I do that today, use 2 contacts, one for
warning and one for critical.  That just seems to defeat the purpose
of having both pager and email in one contact.

On 5/24/06, Andrew Cruse <andrew at profitability.net> wrote:
> nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net wrote:
> > Good afternoon,
> >
> > I am sure I am not seeing the big picture here but I want to
> > have a single contact and have nagios use the pager for
> > critical/ok and email for warning/ok messages.  It doesnt
> > appear that the default notification commands allow for this.
> >
> > Do I need to write a new notification command that determines
> > if the alert is warning, critical, etc. and use the
> > appropriate macro at that point?
>
> You *could* write a new notification command.  That would be the most
> elegant solution, probably, but a quick-and-dirty "use what's there"
> solution would be to create two users -- one for email, one for paging.
>
> Then for the paging user, use:
>
>         service_notification_options    c,r
>         host_notification_options       d,r
>
> And for the email user, use:
>
>         service_notification_options    w,u,r
>
> Then make sure both users are members of the appropriate contact group
> and you should be in business.
>
> Andrew
>
>
>
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