Ignoring a particular alarm (on purpose)?

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of jeff vier
> Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 9:38 AM
> To: nagios-users
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Ignoring a particular alarm (on purpose)?
> 
> Here's a weird one.
> 
> I have a request to be able to filter out a particular alarm on the
> Service Status Page.
> 
> The problem is that I have Nagios set up to watch for Windows Update
> (WU) availability, but it can take WEEKS for the Windows Admin to roll
> them out to all the Windows Servers.  So, in the interim, we're
staring
> down a few hundred WU alerts.
> 
> A couple of the folks in the NOC have asked if there's a way to not
see
> them (but still see everything else).
> 
> I figure I *COULD* code it out of the cgi, but then why watch for the
> WUs at all (we don't page on them).
> 
> Any idea?  (regex filter that can be passed arbitrary values via GET
> variables? *fingers crossed*)

I don't know anything about your process for dealing with alerts but our
helpdesk acknowledges alerts as tickets are created and their view only
shows un-acknowledged problems --

http://your.nagios.host/cgi/status.cgi?host=all&type=detail&servicestatu
stypes=32&hoststatustypes=3&serviceprops=42

Using this method, they only see new problems, not ones that are already
being worked. Maybe that option will work for you. There is no regex
filter either built in or as an addon that I am aware of.

--
Marc



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