Configuration option for auto-acknowledge?

[Subhendu Ghosh]

Or since you have using templates - create 2 templates 
one with a 24x7 monitor and a second with a not-time monitor

Use the second when adding config to nagios.
Upon the first login (Radius accounting somewhere)
write another script to change the template to enable monitoring and 
possibly remove the script from be activated on future logon or keep a 
hash of users who have not loged on as yet.

-sg


On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Shayne Lebrun wrote:

> Hurm.
> 
> Have your import script not import a RADIUS entry into Nagios until such
> time as he's logged in.
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
> [mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of Jason
> Lixfeld
> Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 2:22 PM
> To: jcarro10 at sprintspectrum.com
> Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Configuration option for auto-acknowledge?
> 
> 
> Jim,
> 
> Carroll, Jim P [Contractor] wrote:
> > Perhaps some greater detail is required.  Some questions:
> >
> > - exactly where in Nagios are you automatically adding these users?  Could
> > you provide a sample configuration which has been automatically added?
> 
> I am creating host and service entries in nagios based on information
> which is in our RADIUS user database:
> 
> Our radius database gives us two values for each user, username and IP
> address.  It is imported into nagios via a perl script and username
> becomes host_name and IP address is the same, address for an entry that
> looks like this for each user in our radius database:
> 
> define host {
>          use                             w7
>          host_name                       harv2459.w7
>          alias                           harv2459
>          address                         216.7.193.244
>          }
> 
> define service {
>          use                             w7
>          host_name                       harv2459.w7
>          service_description             PING
>          contact_groups                  w7.email,w7.pager
>          check_command                   check-host-alive
>          }
> 
> 
> > - where are the users logging into?  Into Nagios?  Into the o/s?
> 
> The users are logging into our DSL network over ppp.  It is a dedicated
> service but since we provision the users in radius (And thus are
> inserted into nagios) before the customers recieve the hardware to
> activate their service (PPP DSL router), as soon as nagios gets it's new
> config, it tries to monitor the user which isn't up yet.  I'm looking
> for a way to tell Nagios to not notify us to the fact that harv2459 is
> unreachable until after the first time he logs in -- in essence,
> proactive acknowledgment of a service that isn't completely installed.
> 
> > - what changes, as far as Nagios is concerned, after the user logs in for
> > the first time?
> 
> After the user logs in, his router becomes pingable (via ppp) as it
> recieved the IP address from radius (which is also configured in radius).
> 
> > There might be a much more elegant solution to what you're asking.
> 
> And so I am hoping! :)
> 
> > Having said that, maybe what you're looking for is a way of pushing
> commands
> > directly into Nagios, via nagios.cmd.  Check the FAQ.
> 
> Perhaps.  Based on what I have said here, what do you suggest?
> 
> > jc
> >
> >
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: Jason Lixfeld [mailto:jlixfeld at fastvibe.com]
> >>Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 9:40 AM
> >>To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> >>Subject: [Nagios-users] Configuration option for auto-acknowledge?
> >>
> >>
> >>Greetings,
> >>
> >>	At our organization, we pre-provision users and use
> >>nagios to poll the
> >>provisioning server and automatically add users to the nagios
> >>configuration.  The problem with this implementation is that
> >>the users
> >>may not be active before they have been provisioned.  This means that
> >>until they login for the first time, alarms will go off unless we
> >>manually acknowledge each of the pre-provisioned users.  A
> >>user may not
> >>login for a long period of time after they are provisioned, and thus
> >>added to nagios.  What I'm wondering is if there is a
> >>configuration hook
> >>that can be inserted for each user that sets the initial notification
> >>state to acknowledged so we don't have to manually
> >>acknowledge each user.
> >>
> >>Thank you in advance.
> >>
> >>
> >>
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