Global Events

[Quanah Gibson-Mount]

Stanford has written a process that gets called any time a global event is 
trigger, that sends a SOAP event to another system that pulls together 
alerts from a number of different monitoring systems.  However, one problem 
we've noticed is that some very useful events that we'd want that other 
system to see do not trigger global events.

Specifically, acknowledgements of a problem would be the most useful.  Is 
there an easy way to add to the events that are considered global?  Are 
there changes to what the global events are in Nagios 2.0?


Another trigger for a global even that would be useful is for a system 
going into downtime.


Example:

[1121002943] EXTERNAL COMMAND: 
SCHEDULE_HOST_DOWNTIME;kerberos1;1121002923;1121010123;1;3600;rra;Upgrading 
to Debian
[1121002944] HOST DOWNTIME ALERT: kerberos1;STARTED; Host has entered a 
period of scheduled downtime
[1121010123] HOST DOWNTIME ALERT: kerberos1;STOPPED; Host has exited from a 
period of scheduled downtime

Obviously kerberos1 was put into downtime @1121002944, however, the 
following global events were still generated:

[1121004587] GLOBAL HOST EVENT HANDLER: kerberos1;DOWN;SOFT;1;notify-smarts
[1121004608] GLOBAL HOST EVENT HANDLER: kerberos1;DOWN;HARD;2;notify-smarts
[1121006152] GLOBAL HOST EVENT HANDLER: kerberos1;UP;HARD;1;notify-smarts

Notifying the other system that the host was down (notify-smarts).  Since 
the downtime knowledge isn't also broadcast, the SMARTS system has no way 
of knowing the host down alerts should be ignored.  Alternative, perhaps 
global events shouldn't be broadcast for systems in downtime.

--Quanah


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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Developer
ITSS/Shared Services
Stanford University
GnuPG Public Key: http://www.stanford.edu/~quanah/pgp.html


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