SMS notifications for specific services only

[Fiederling, Daniel]

Hi!

I'm working on sms notifications sent by nagios. I use the smstools
developed by Stefan Frings
(http://www.isis.de/~s.frings/smstools_index.html) with a Siemens TC35i GSM
modem. It's really nice, we use this solution for other purposes too.

I can define an email address and a pager number for each contact. If the
notification command for sending sms is specified the contact will receive
SMS for each service that fails. This works great. But: I don't want to
receive an SMS for each service, only for some specific ones. 
I thought about defining a macro like $USER5$ in these specific service
definitions (but I can't figure out how to :-) ) or putting a special string
in the service_description and passing that macro to the notification script
that decides if a sms is sent or not. I don't want to create 2 contact
entries for the same person that should receive sms, one with sms
notifcations, the other one without (my first idea). Maybe a special group
is the better way?!

I was asking myself if there is another (maybe straight through) way for
doing this with Nagios 1.2. Maybe I'm thinking much too complicated - do I?

Any suggestions?
Thanks!
Daniel




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