Contact methods

[Andreas Ericsson]

Daniel Benoy wrote:
> Hello, I just set up Nagios on my home network.  I've used it before at work, 
> so I'm familiar with it.. however, I've only used a far far older version.  
> (Not only have I forgotten most of what I learned back then :p but also,) 
> Some things seemed to have changed with the configuration.  In the past, I 
> would have multiple methods of contacting the staff (By pager, by e-mail, by 
> instant messanger), and they'd each be their own contact object thingy.
> 
> However, I see now that Nagios authenticates based on wether your 
> authenticated username matches the name of a contact.  Is there any way I 
> could have multiple contacts for 'jdoe', every one of which 'jdoe' can 
> access?
> 

You only need one contact to log in. Set up jdoe (for email), jdoe-pager 
(for pager alerts) jdoe-im (for im) and so on. Use jdoe to log in. Put 
them all in the same contactgroup and you're good to go.

> i.e. I only want jdoe to be contacted by pager if several attempts to contact 
> him by IM have failed.  And some failures warrant no immediate attention at 
> all, and a simple e-mail documenting the event is sufficient.
> 
> However, if I make a 'jdoe-pager' 'jdoe-email' etc etc contact for each 
> method, then it messes up authentication.
> 
> If this requires a new feature, I'm willing to make a patch, so if it can't be 
> done currently, let me know how you'd best like to see the syntax etc.
> 

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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Lead Developer


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