some feature requests

[Andreas Ericsson]

Brad O'Hara wrote:
> In line.
> 
> Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> 
>> Volker Maibaum wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> I have some feature requests for nagios:
>>>
>>> - set contactgroups on host basis for services. So that if no contact is
>>> set for a service check the host contact group is used. That would make
>>> configuration a lot easier.
>>>
>>>     
>>
>>
>> This I like.
>>
>>  
>>
>>> - It would be nice if it would be possible to categorise the criticality
>>> of services and hosts. E.g. critical / uncritical / unimportant. So that
>>> the operating could easily decide if they have to call somebody during
>>> midnight or if the problem can wait till the next morning.
>>> I know this could also be done by host and servicegroups, but it would
>>> be nicer to have this as a parameter. Depending on the category the
>>> host/service could be highlighted with different colours in the
>>> web-frontend.
>>>     
>>
>>
>> This I don't. It's very, very simple to make the right contacts the 
>> contacts of critical hosts and services and have any script you want 
>> do the actual contacting, so adding complexity to the core to give 
>> another way of doing the same thing doesn't sound very useful to me.
>>
>>   
> 
> True enough.  Our problem is that we have operations staff monitor 
> Nagios and notify people off hours based on how critical the "resource" 
> is not the severity of the check.
> 

Ok. Then you're not using the first alternative, which would be to 
create a notification script for the contacts supposed to be on call for 
the night. Nagios is fully capable of dialing your technical staff and 
telling them that "this and this unit isn't functioning". I think you're 
also aware that you can use several different notification-commands 
(they don't have to notify, they can do anything you can make a computer 
do, really), and this in combination with the possibility of setting 
several or different contactgroups for each host and service is, imo, a 
better solution than to implement configuration options. Mostly since 
those options will easily become outdated, but also because of the need 
to add more bloat to the core of Nagios.

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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
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