Improving notifications - offer to code/RFC/etc.

[Jo Rhett]

Is there no interest in this?  If I develop this, will it be ignored?

On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 01:06:56PM -0800, Joe Rhett wrote:
> I sent this message a few weeks ago to the -users list, and haven't seen 
> a response.  So I'm starting a new thread here.
> 
> > Joe Rhett wrote:
> > >The problem is that a given person really only wants to have a single
> > >nagios login to see everything they own, but need to customize the alerts
> > >they receive.
>  
> On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 10:04:19AM +0100, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> > Make a third contact with the login-name and set its 
> > notification-options to 'n'. Make it a member of all contactgroups where 
> > any of its notification aliases is a member.
>  
> This doesn't scale beyond 2-3 people before trying to track all the
> references become mindboggling.
> 
> How about using a separator character in the name? Nagios itself treats all
> contacts as normal.  The WebUI drops the separator and everything after it
> in the calculation of 'visible'.
> 
> For example:
> 
> jrhett#mailonly
> jrhett#only9-5
> jrhett#emergencies
> 
> The normal notification routines are unmodified, and treat these as three
> separate entities.  But the WebUI drops #.... and thus 'jrhett' can see
> anything that any of the three are assigned?
> 
> This is a VERY common F-A-Q.  If I found a way to code this, would it be
> accepted as a feature?
> 
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> Joe Rhett
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> 
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