Sticky alerts

[Stephen Farrugia]

Hi Tedman,

I might just have to not send OK messages to the main Nagios server, but then
I'll also have to remove my freshness checks.

Also, the volatile option is not suitable for me as I don't have any
notifications, using only the web interface to monitor things.

Thanks
Stephen

Tedman Eng wrote:
> If you're using send_nsca, I assume you're using a cron job/wrapper script
> on the logging host.  The behavior seems to be a problem with the fetchlog
> implementation and not necessarily Nagios.  Perhaps you can alter your
> wrapper script to tell it to not send "OK" status alerts via nsca, since
> humans will be submitting the "OK".  Trap exitcode != 0.
> 
> Also, consider toggling the volatile option if you are using it currently.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Farrugia [mailto:nagios at fudgemond.org]
> Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2004 8:55 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Sticky alerts
> 
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm new to Nagios and am enjoying the monitoring capabilities it offers
> that allows me to keep an eye on a small setup I have.
> 
> I am running nagios-1.2 and plugins-1.4a on Linux (Gentoo).  I have compiled
> Nagios myself, not through the Gentoo portage system.  I also have nrpe and
> nsca successfully running across a small network of machines and it all
> works
> well.
> 
> One piece of functionality I have is a bit of passive monitoring of log
> files
> using fetchlog, and this is where I have a problem.  I would like any alert
> raised while monitoring log files to remain sticky until the person
> monitoring
> acknowledges the alert.  At the moment, fetchlog raises an alert and sends
> it to the central Nagios server using send_nsca, but on the next cycle, it
> send an all clear, so the person monitoring alerts would see the alert go
> away.  This is undesirable behaviour for me as I would like the alert to
> remain until acknowledged.
> 
> I've looked through the doco, and searched through the mailing lists, but
> have be unable to find an answer.  Maybe the answer is there but I didn't
> see it for what it was.  In any case, I would appreciate a bit of guidance
> with this problem.
> 
> Many regards
> Stephen
> 
> 
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