Warning Alerts

[Yueh-Hung Liu]

maybe you can try this:

http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Addons/Notifications/%2A-Notification-Managers/Rule%252DBased-Notifier/details



On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 11:55 PM, Engelmann, Austin
<aengelmann at libertymgt.com> wrote:
> I definitely considered escalations; I was actually reading more about it
> this morning.
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> 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.
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>
> 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.
>
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>
> Can there be a separate command for alerting on warnings only?
>
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>
> 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
>
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> 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
>
> ________________________________
>
> 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.
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>
> 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.
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> 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.
>
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> Regards,
>
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>
> Austin
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