Network Overview Alert

[Carroll, Jim P [Contractor]]

You might wish to consider revising your request to be a simple overall
status of green/yellow/red.  I can't imagine anything 'brief' about having,
say, several services across even just a few hosts reported via pager.

For those of us who have experienced spurious (but rare) network problems
which defy the 'parents' directive (through no fault of Nagios, I'm quick to
add), there's nothing quite like getting hundreds/thousands of notifications
by pager, only for the on-call support person to repeatedly delete the pages
after repeatedly receiving a "Memory full" error on said pager, to the point
where turning it off for the duration is the best solution.  I'm not quite
sure how you'd make that 'brief'.

What you propose isn't a *bad* idea, but you might want to refine the scope
a little bit.  For one thing, you might want to consider going behind the
scenes with some simple munging of status.log, something like:

  cat /usr/local/nagios/var/status.log | grep -v ";UP;" | grep -v ";OK;"

and work from there. using cron and your MTA.

Food for thought.

jc


> -----Original Message-----
> From: wasson at brawleyonline.com [mailto:wasson at brawleyonline.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 4:40 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Network Overview Alert
> 
> 
> I'd like to set up nagios to send a morning 'overall network 
> status' in a
> single email/SMS message. I'd like the alert to briefly list 
> broken hosts
> and services or send an "Everything is up" message. I can set 
> up a time
> period and run a custom command during that time, but I am 
> getting stuck
> when I think about what command I actually want this to run.
> I didn't find anything in the FAQ or mailing list archives 
> about this, but
> if it's been covered, please direct me to it.
> Tony Wasson
> 
> 
> 
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