How to limit the amout of SMS notifications?

[Yueh-Hung Liu]

how about have another definition:

define hostescalation{
host_name.....................................Test Switch
first_notification.............................7
last_notification.............................0
notification_interval.......................5
contact_groups.............................admin sms
escalation_options........................r
}



On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 10:50 PM, Andrew Thompson <andrew at fulgent.co.uk> wrote:
> Thanks Assaf
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> I can a quick look at those but I didn’t think it suited my needs.
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> Now I have had a play I have come up with the following
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> (rules have slightly changed)
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> Now I want the following
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> Notification No.................Time Host
> Down...................Notification Method
> .........1................................3
> min.....................................Email............
> .........2................................8
> min.....................................Email............
> .........3...............................13
> min....................................Email, SMS..
> .........4...............................18
> min....................................Email............
> .........5...............................23
> min....................................Email............
> .........6...............................28
> min....................................Email............
> .........RECOVER.....................?????.....................................Email,
> SMS..
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> I have managed it with the following escalations
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> define hostescalation{
> host_name.....................................Test Switch
> first_notification.............................1
> last_notification.............................5
> notification_interval.......................5
> contact_groups.............................admin email
> escalation_options........................d,r
> }
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> define hostescalation{
> host_name.....................................Test Switch
> first_notification.............................3
> last_notification.............................3
> notification_interval.......................5
> contact_groups.............................admin sms
> escalation_options........................d,r
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> }
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> define hostescalation{
> host_name.....................................Test Switch
> first_notification.............................6
> last_notification.............................0
> notification_interval.......................0
> contact_groups.............................admin email
> escalation_options........................d,r
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> }
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> I get 6 emails as I should at N1-6, I get the SMS at N3.
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> I also get the recovery email but I don’t get the recovery SMS.
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> Is this because I told it not to text me again after N3, and this also
> includes recovery alerts?
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> Thanks
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> Kind Regards
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> Andrew
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> From: Andrew Thompson
> Sent: 15 November 2011 10:20
> To: 'nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net'
> Subject: How to limit the amout of SMS notifications?
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> Hi all,
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> I have Nagios 3.3.1 setup on Ubuntu Desktop 11.04.
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> I monitor approx. 70 hosts (mixture of Windows Servers, Switches, Firewalls)
> by PING only.
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> Down hosts are notified to me via email and SMS at the moment.
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> What I would like to so is limit the amount of SMS messages that are sent
> from my Nokia phone connected to my Ubuntu box.
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> As it stands I allow 3 checks 1 minute apart before I am alerted via email –
> after that I am alerted via email every 5 minutes until recovery.
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> I have just implemented the phone to SMS alerts aswell but I want to limit
> the amount of texts as I don’t want a text every 5 minutes until recovery
> for sanity reasons and also cost reasons!
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> This is what I would like to happen If a host goes down:
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> Email and SMS to be sent out on the 3rd failed check to the host (So 1st
> alert is sent out after 3 minutes of the host being down.)
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> Then……
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> I want to be alerted via email every 5 minutes until the host recovers
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> But……
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> I only want 2 more SMS after the initial SMS, 5 minutes apart and then no
> more SMS until the host is recovered. So I want an SMS after 3, 8 and 13
> minutes of the host being down, then a recovery SMS.
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> Is this possible?
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> Thanks in advance
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> Kind Regards
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> Andrew
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