Warning Alerts

[Engelmann, Austin]

I definitely considered escalations; I was actually reading more about
it this morning.

 

At the moment I have alerts for Hosts and Services alerting every 10
minutes (I am keeping the very simple function of acknowledgements a
secret for now). The other guys on my team know not to acknowledge
anything until some real work is done toward troubleshooting.

 

I was thinking of keeping it simple and hoping that a separate command
can be setup to email on warnings (I will customize the MSG that is sent
out). I figure that if this person is not keen on browsing the
monitoring systems on a daily basis, that alerting on the warnings would
be a good training mechanism for him.

 

Can there be a separate command for alerting on warnings only?

 

From: steve f [mailto:a31modela at hotmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2011 10:41 AM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Warning Alerts

 

You could set up a Nagios Escalation Notification  AKA " The Throw you
Under the Bus " Notification where a secondary group ( tertiary,
quaternary, quinary, senary, septenary, octonary, nonary, etc )  of
people ( techs, managers, etc ) get notified if an alert has not been
addressed for x amount of time.

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/escalations.html

Steve

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Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 09:54:52 -0500
From: aengelmann at libertymgt.com
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] Warning Alerts

I have an admin that does not pay very much attention to our Nagios and
Cacti servers. If he paid any attention he would have noticed a warning
about disk space on our email server and would have investigated and
solved the problem before it became critical.

 

Is it possible to setup different alerts for warnings? I would like to
setup a warning template to have a quick message like, "Better Check
Nagios!!!" And I would send these alerts to all of our admins because
this individual is more responsive when light is shed on issues.

 

On that subject, is it possible to monitor and alert for a sudden change
in disk space? Our situation is that within 2 days we lost over 80 GB of
space and it wasn't until I looked at Nagios that we became aware of the
issue.

 

Regards,

 

Austin

 


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