Very basic notifications question

Matthew Macdonald-Wallace mmw at tiger-computing.co.uk
Tue Mar 18 16:31:06 CET 2008


Hi all,

We've got a NAGIOS 2.x server running really well monitoring our
systems. We're now moving on to the point where more than one of us
will need to keep an eye on the system and so we're moving away from our
single-screen monitoring station in the corner of the office to email
alerts.

What we want:

- Monitoring of the following:
   * Host Status (Up/Down)
   * Disk Space on given partitions
   * Swap Usage
   * RAID Status
- Alerts when the service/host fails and alerts when the service/host
starts again.

What we don't want:

 - Alerts for services that are not mission critical (we have a script
that monitors the current Debian version for upgrade purposes)
 - An inbox full of emails telling us that a system/service is down
every five minutes.

Is it possible to set alerts for individual services and have them send
an email when the service changes state but not every time it checks?

I've had a read of the docs and I can't see how I'd achieve this,
however if anyone knows of a good primer on this kind of thing, I'd be
very grateful.

Thanks in advance,

Matt.
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