Configuration option for auto-acknowledge?

[Jason Lixfeld]

Yeah, so there is no easy way to skin the cat or send configure a 
pre-acknowledged state; fine.  It will take some creative thinking -- 
and hiring a developer to actually do this cuz I was barely able to get 
the first perl script importing from radius working properly :)

Thanks for your input, folks.

Subhendu Ghosh wrote:
> 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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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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