Notifications

[Anton Krall]

Thx.. It helped understand more the way nagios thinks...

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%Sent: Lunes, 06 de Septiembre de 2004 08:45 p.m.
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%Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications
%
%On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 08:00:46PM -0500, Anton Krall wrote:
%> Ive noticed there are many places to add notifications and 
%ways to do 
%> it but I want to check with you if what Im doing is the right way.
%> 
%> I want a customer to be able to view their server status on nagios 
%> webpage so I made a new contact and also his contactgroup then added 
%> his group to hostgroups.cfg and seem he can now see his 
%servers on the 
%> webpage.. Now, for notifications, where do I need to add his 
%> contactgroup in order for him to get host notifications and service 
%> notifications?
%> For services I would imagine adding him to contact_groups on every 
%> service or template on services.cfg right? And what about host 
%> notifications?
%
%That's right.  For the host notifications, since you say you 
%have a hostgroup for his servers anyway, you can add him or 
%the contact group to that hostgroup.  For example:
%
%define hostgroup {
%  hostgroup_name   whatever
%  alias            Whatever
%  contact_groups   someguy
%  members          someservers
%}
%
%> What if I had a user that I dont want him to be able to see 
%the server 
%> status via web but I would like him to get notifications on 
%a service 
%> and just that service for a host?
%
%Since authorization to the webserver itself is handled outside 
%of Nagios, you can just not create a valid login for that 
%user.  The contact within Nagios will still work as normal, 
%but the user will be denied access to the CGI's by the web server.
%
%> What sometimes puzzles me is that, for example, there is a reference 
%> to notification_enable on many files like hosts.cfg or services.cfg 
%> etc so..  Which one is actually used or redundant?
%
%They're all used, and interact with each other in mysterious ways.
%Well, not mysterious - mostly in the ways you would expect, 
%and it's up to you to decide which ones you want to actually use.
%
%You can enable and disable notifications for each host, and 
%for each service, as you see fit.  When notifications are 
%enabled and a state change occurs within the time period 
%defined by the notification_period for that host/service, AND 
%the state changes to one of the states specified by the 
%notification_options, then all contacts for that host/service 
%will be eligible to be notified.  Whether they will or not 
%depends on the settings for that contact - the period they 
%will be notified during, and what sort of states they want to receive.
%
%Most of the time, you'll want services and hosts to notify 
%24x7 on every state change, and filter notifications for each 
%contact as needed... but there are always exceptions.  Just 
%pick whatever makes more sense to you.
%
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