Alternative Notification Method

[Mark Gius]

I haven't tried this myself, but you could try having a notification 
command that checks for a custom object variable ($_HOSTALTNOTIFY$) and 
does an if/else on the state of that variable?  I'm not sure how Nagios 
behaves when a $BLAH$ doesn't exist, so you may need to define it 
globally as "no" or something and then override to "yes" but it could work.

-Gius

Mathew Walker wrote:
> Just thinking about something here and didn't make sense.  Wanted to 
> make sure I was not missing something...
>  
> I define a contact like in the documentation...
>  
> define contact{
>  contact_name                    jdoe
>  alias                           John Doe
>  host_notifications_enabled      1
>  service_notifications_enabled   1
>  service_notification_period     24x7
>  host_notification_period        24x7
>  service_notification_options    w,u,c,r
>  host_notification_options       d,u,r
>  service_notification_commands   notify-by-email
>  host_notification_commands      host-notify-by-email
>  email                           jdoe at localhost.localdomain 
> <mailto:jdoe at localhost.localdomain>
>  pager                           
> 555-5555 at pagergateway.localhost.localdomain 
> <mailto:555-5555 at pagergateway.localhost.localdomain>
>  address1                        xxxxx.xyyy at icq.com 
> <mailto:xxxxx.xyyy at icq.com>
>  address2                        555-555-5555
>  can_submit_commands             1
>  }
>
> Sure he gets email alerts just fine, but what if I wanted to make sure 
> the contacts got emails to his default email as well as ADDRESS1 or 
> PAGER for a particular service?   I create a 
> "service_notification_command" called "notify-by-address1" which would 
> work, but I can only seem to specify this on the contact level so he 
> would get alerts to both addresses for every service he's a contact for. 
>  
> I know I could alternatively create a 2nd contact and add that 2nd 
> contact to the particular service, I just didn't know if I'm missing 
> some other way to configure a contact 'method' for a given contact at 
> a service/host level.
>  
> Also I'm assuming I can modify this line...  
> service_notification_commands   notify-by-email,notify-by-address1
> For a given service so they get alerts to both locations for all alerts.
>  
> If not... perhaps be able to add something like this at the individual 
> service/host level...
>  
> contact            jdoe:notify-by-email,jdoe:notify-by-pager
>  
> defaulting to email if no method is defined...
>
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