single notification contact

[Eli Stair]

Why not just extend the command that sends your alerts a bit?  Modifying 
your notify-by-email (or equivalent) to fire off your own external 
script that does what the default behaviour is, adding to it a function 
to do your custom work if the $HOSTSTATE$ == CRITICAL.

/eli

Don Lewis wrote:
> Very true..very true, wish they would add it myself, this is why we have
> yet to have Nagios send notifs to our ticketing system, cause our admins
> need to also get the other types pf notifs.
> 
> -Don
> 
> On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 13:47 -0600, Terry wrote:
> 
>>Sadly, this is a lot of overhead for such a simple yet useful idea.
>>
>>On 1/23/06, Don Lewis <donnell.lewis at icoretechnology.com> wrote:
>>
>>>Then yes, I do believe this is what you would have to do, would be to
>>>have 2 same services configured for what is being monitored, each with
>>>it's own settings to send off to ticket systems.  One would be with
>>>notification_options=u,w,c,r and the service for the ticket system being
>>>just =c.
>>>
>>>This is the only way I know to do that, if you needed to also receive
>>>notifications of recoveries, warning and such separately from the ticket
>>>system.
>>>
>>>Would be nice if that was a configurable thing so you could have a
>>>second set of notifs go to another location with just a macro..:)
>>>
>>>Does anyone else have any ideas ?
>>>
>>>
>>>-Don
>>>
>>>On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 13:18 -0600, Terry wrote:
>>>
>>>>The idea behind this is to send a single email for each "problem" to
>>>>our ticketting system for auto-creation of a ticket.  Sending more
>>>>than one email for each problem could create multiple tickets.
>>>>
>>>>On 1/23/06, Don Lewis <donnell.lewis at icoretechnology.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>If I'm not mistaken I believe you would have to set the
>>>>>notification_option for that service to just one status, and if you want
>>>>>the same service for yourself with different options I believe you would
>>>>>have to configure 2 seperate services each with differnt
>>>>>notification_options and contactgroups.  If anyone knows different
>>>>>please elaborate, cause this is the only way I know to do it.
>>>>>
>>>>>-Don Lewis
>>>>>
>>>>>On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 12:05 -0600, Terry wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>Hello,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I have a contact that I want only to receive a single email of each
>>>>>>issue.  I dont want email sent to this contact for status changes.
>>>>>>Only new issues.  How can I do this?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Thanks!
>>>>>>
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