Feature request - Downtime Notification

Tarrah Gledhill tarrah.gledhill at utoronto.ca
Tue May 23 21:38:58 CEST 2006


That sounds like it would do the trick.

Thanks. :)

Ethan Galstad wrote:

> Tarrah Gledhill wrote:
> 
>> I would like the following feature, but have not found any reference 
>> to it's existence.
>>
>> Would it be possible to make a Scheduled Downtime send notification 
>> warning contacts of the impending downtime as well as notification at 
>> the start/end of the downtime?
>>
>> example:
>>  - Downtime scheduled for Host/Service on date/time
>>  - Scheduled downtime on host/service - started/stopped/cancelled
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Tarrah
> 
> 
> This is an excellent idea and I'll put it on the blocks for 3.0. 
> Notifying contacts when downtime starts/stops/gets cancelled is easy... 
> the $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ macro will be set to one of the following:
> 
>     DOWNTIMESTART
>     DOWNTIMEEND
>     DOWNTIMECANCELLED
> 
> Does anyone have objections to this?
> 
> Sending notification of impending downtime is difficult, and I don't 
> know if we can do it.  The reason for this is that some downtime entries 
> do not start at a specific time (e.g. flexible and triggered downtime). 
>  Also, there could be multiple overlapping scheduled downtime entries 
> for a particular host/service that could complicate this even further.
> 
> A possible solution would be allowing for "custom" notifications that 
> can be initiated by users through the web interface.  The 
> $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ macro could be set to "CUSTOM" and author/comment 
> data could be available in the $xACKAUTHOR$ $xACKDATA$ macros (or 
> perhaps new macros are in order).  Custom notifications might be useful 
> for a number of reasons - e.g. relaying updates on the status of fixes. 
>  When downtime is scheduled, an option could be added to the web 
> interface that would allow a custom notification to be sent out 
> notifying contacts of the downtime that was scheduled.
> 
> How does the custom notification feature sound to folks?
> 
> Ethan Galstad,
> Nagios Developer
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