RFE: Virtual Contact

[Jonathan Rozes]

Why not just have a script rewrite/replace your contactgroups.cfg file and
restart nagios as needed? It would be a lot less complex than adding a bunch
of calendaring junk to the package. You could achieve the same result
rewriting/replacing timeperiods.cfg.

I'm not sure of the usefulness of a "send a message" option either. Why not
just send email to the person?

Resolving who is on call right now could easily be done as well using an
external script, or if you want to see it in nagios, a plugin that simply
culls the info out of the config file and returns OK with the name of the
current contact(s).

jonathan

+++ Jonathan Rozes, Manager, Information Technology, Will Vinton Studios


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carroll, Jim P [Contractor] [mailto:jcarro10 at sprintspectrum.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 8:55 AM
> To: 'nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net'
> Subject: [Nagios-users] RFE: Virtual Contact
> 
> 
> (As if the leads didn't already have enough to ponder....)
> 
> I was wondering if it would be possible to have the following 
> Request For
> Enhancement in a future release of Nagios:
> 
>    'Virtual Contact'
> 
> Features:
> 
> - a VC (Virtual Contact) could be assigned to a real contact
> - this VC would (most likely) be the first to receive the pager/e-mail
> notifications
> - users who could change who the VC is assigned to would be 
> restricted to a
> 'VC group' (perhaps this would simply be a matter of adding 
> the VC to the
> same contact group)
> - depending on permissions, a user could send a short (120 
> character) msg to
> the VC (or to any user, if this makes sense) from the web 
> interface; this
> msg would go to the pager, to e-mail, to SMS... whatever's 
> defined for the
> VC (/user)
> - optionally (via config files) a user could determine who 
> the VC resolves
> to
> 
> I'm not sure how many organizations out there have a rotating 
> "on call"
> admin, but this is the case within my group.  A feature such 
> as the above
> would be useful.  "Blue sky" wish list, of course.  ;)
> 
> Food for thought.
> 
> jc
> 
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