notifications and acknowledges

[Ethan Galstad]

Wolfgang Barth wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I want to use notifications from acknowledges as trigger for creating
> trouble ticket. At this time, I put some logic into a script which is
> called as notification command.
> 
> But why not treat acknowledges similar to flapping and downtime in the
> notification_options? 
> 
>    notification_options    d,r,x,s  x = ack's
> 
> Currently I get the following behaviour:
> 
> 1) host unreachable, notification_options = d,r
>    -> no notification
> 2) acknowledge this host
>    -> notification is sent!
> 3) host recovers
>    -> no notification due to no "UNREACHABLE" notification is sent.
> 
> I think this is a little bit asymmetric. It should be:
> 
> a) no acknowledge message would be send due to missing notification value u
>    or
> b) send acknowledge and recovery
>    or much more better
> c) make it customizable with an additional notification_option ;-)
> 
> Just my 2 Cents 
> 
> Wolfgang
> 

Thanks Wolfgang - I'll keep this in mind for a future feature enhancement.


Ethan Galstad
Nagios Developer
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