Any way to have Nagios send epages only when host or service is critical (not for warnings?)

[Brian Johnson]

OK...

I just started using Nagios last week and find it to be FANTASTIC. Even I know the answer to this one.

RTFM!!!

Services - http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/xodtemplate.html#service

Hosts - http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/xodtemplate.html#host

Notifications - http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/notifications.html

This information is in the referenced documentation. Please read it before just bailing out to the list.



  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: sobrien at ci.bend.or.us 
  To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net 
  Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 2:23 PM
  Subject: Fw: [Nagios-users] Any way to have Nagios send epages only when host or service is critical (not for warnings?)



  Anyone have a solution for the issue of wanting to be notified of warnings but only wanting to paged when the service/host goes critical? 

  Steve O'Brien
  City of Bend
  Network Administrator
  sobrien at ci.bend.or.us
  541-322-6393

  ----- Forwarded by Steve OBrien/Bend on 07/21/2003 12:20 PM ----- 
        "Jason Lancaster" <jlancaster at affinity.com> 
        07/21/2003 09:50 AM 
       To <sobrien at ci.bend.or.us>  
              cc  
              Subject Re: [Nagios-users] Any way to have Nagios send epages only when host or service is critical (not for warnings?) 

              

       



  Hmm, you've stumped me. I can think of work-arounds but I cannot think of a
  direct way to do this within Nagios.

  -You could add another contact and into contacts.cfg.
  Contact1: jlancaster
  Contact2: jlancaster-pager
  I would then define different host and service notification options for
  each. Personally, I never envisioned needing this but it's a major
  limitation on Nagios templates and in my current database implementation.
  Doh.

  -You could also write a wrapper for the pager notification command and
  search the $HOSTSTATE$ variable for critical notifications.

  -Additionally, you could take the second workaround a step further and
  create a more advanced contact notification module. I know I have seen
  discussions with regards to the development and use of more advanced
  notification systems before on this list.

  You might want to post a followup to your first post reiterating what you
  said to me below. (You're welcome to post what I wrote too)

  Let me know what you come up with.

  Jason Lancaster
  Intranet Administrator, Affinity Internet
  http://www.affinity.com

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: sobrien at ci.bend.or.us
  To: Jason Lancaster
  Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 12:21
  Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Any way to have Nagios send epages only when
  host or service is critical (not for warnings?)



  That appears to be a setting for notifying only when host is in a particular
  state.  I want to know when the warning states occur but I only want them
  emailed, I do not want to be paged.  I only want to be paged when it is
  critical.

  Steve O'Brien
  City of Bend
  Network Administrator
  sobrien at ci.bend.or.us
  541-322-6393


  "Jason Lancaster" <jlancaster at affinity.com>
  07/21/2003 09:21 AM To<nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>,
  <sobrien at ci.bend.or.us>
  cc
  SubjectRe: [Nagios-users] Any way to have Nagios send epages only when host
  or service is critical (not for warnings?)







  Yes, this type of functionality defined in the contacts.cfg
  service_notification_options and host_notification_options. Read
  http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/xodtemplate.html#contact
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: sobrien at ci.bend.or.us
  To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
  Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 11:35
  Subject: [Nagios-users] Any way to have Nagios send epages only when host or
  service is critical (not for warnings?)


  I want to have nagios only page people when services or hosts are critical,
  I only want email when they are in a warning state.

  TIA

  Steve O'Brien

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