Nagios as Cron (fwd)

[Jason Martin]

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> > If your cron isn't sending emails about that stuff, either it or your
> > MTA is broken. 
>  
> Cron is not necessarily broken, but perhaps not optimally (for your use)
> configured. Read the manual on cron ('man cron' if not familiar with man
> pages), this should explain how to send an email for each cron job.

That isn't really the point -- cron is most defininetly sending emails
directly to the responsible party and waking them up at night.  
Unfortunately that completely skips the datacenter group who is supposed
to handle these events, but they only watch a monitoring console fed by
various monitoring tools.  If there is a sensible way to monitor these
sort of once-per-day events in Nagios then I'd rather do that and take
advantage of the reporting and integration benefits it provides. The
cron-emails take care of the functional aspect of notifying someone but it
means some people get woken up in the middle of the night unnecessairily.

Thanks,
- -Jason Martin
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