Arbitrary alert processing
Morris, Patrick
patrick.morris at hp.com
Fri Dec 4 09:22:52 CET 2009
Maybe this will work for you:
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/cgiincludes.html
Gareth Beale wrote:
> I'm looking at replacing a system that was used to monitor production
> systems.
>
> It performed two basic functions:
>
> 1. Monitor hosts (using ping) and alert the operations staff if a host
> went down.
> 2. Receive arbitrary text messages sent to it and display them, possibly
> with an audio alert, on the console.
> This was achieved by using remote copy to put a text file (with
> several delimited fields) in a specific directory on the monitoring
> system. A process checked the directory periodically and displayed any
> messages found there, after interpreting the fields in the text file.
>
> Nagios is a no-brainer for the first function, and although it wouldn't
> be hard to write a simple script to do part 2, I'd like to incorporate
> it into nagios. One of the reasons that I'm going to use nagios in the
> first place is that it is browser based. If the support staff get a call
> at home, they can display the nagios dashboard and see exactly what the
> operations staff are seeing. So I'd like the text alerts to be there
> too. I'm not aware of a plugin that provides this capability, nor have I
> seen popups for the nagios pages. I am aware of the Win-popups but I
> want the messaging incorporated into the nagios display. I know too that
> host comments can be added by external commands, but comments are not
> very visible or "loud".
>
> I hope that is clear. I can follow up if not. Any suggestions?
>
>
>
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