Null mailer - no notifications for contacts that want to view CGIs only (maybe notif to an ML)

[Michael Kingsbury]

I would think you could just setup notification hours of 'none' (as defined by the sample configs). 

Essentially, the time period is 00:00-00:00 - and therefore, they get no notifications.  Nice and easy.

-mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Stanley Hopcroft [mailto:Stanley.Hopcroft at IPAustralia.Gov.AU]
Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2004 8:46 PM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] Null mailer - no notifications for contacts that
want to view CGIs only (maybe notif to an ML)


Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,

Does anyone else have a situation where contacts (ie those who want to
view the Nag CGIs) do _not_ want individual notifications - perhaps
because one of the other contacts is a non personal contact that
corresponds to a mailing list and those responsible for the host/service
read this mailing list ?

Alternatively, a site may require that instead of personal notification,
all host and service faults are entered into a 'request tracking' or
'service desk' system but authenticated access to the CGIs is still
required for the host/service administrators. 

I have dealt with this by defining a null notification command ('test 1
-eq 1' but maybe the Bourne shell ':' ['A null command that returns a 0
(true) exit value.'] is better) but Nag must still fork a shell to run
this.

Is a better way simply to 

- not define notification commands - leave them out -  in the contact
template

- individually define notification commands for each contact that
requires notification ?

If that is the case, some of the benefit of the contacts template is
lost since most contacts will require notification. OTOH it seems quite
sensible and feasable to do this.

Is it possible to define a notification command that does _not_ oblige
Nagios to fork /bin/sh ?

What do others do about this ?

Is there any interest in hacking the 1.x notification code to simply
skip further processing ('No-op, no-op the angel did say) for a token
representing a 'null mailer' ?

Perhaps a better way of dealing with this and other related problems is
by having more than one level of inheritance from templates - many
templates can be constructed that inherit attributes from any parent
template and its parents. This may in fact be how it is done in Nag 2.x.

Yours sincerely.

-- 
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Stanley Hopcroft
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'...No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the
continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a
manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes
me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know
for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee...'

from Meditation 17, J Donne.


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