Different alerts level for check_disk.

[Erwin.Mascardo at intelsat.com]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mukarram Syed [mailto:muksyed at yahoo.com] 
>Sent: Monday, 04 April, 2005 15:45
>Subject: [Nagios-users] Different alerts level for check_disk.
>
>
>Thanks for those who responded to my previous email.
>
>Also, I am trying to send alarms to my pager at the
>critical limit and warning alarm to my email.
>I tried to do the following but it does not work
>because restarting nagios fails:

<snip>

>But since the service description is the same, nagios
>complains when startup.  
>Do I have to have two service descriptions (one for
>Disk Warn and other for Disk Critical) or is there
>another elegant option?

Nice thought, but you're going about it in the wrong direction. I had a
similar sort of problem when doing my configuration and got around it by
defining multiple contact listings for each person receiving notifications.
Here's one way to do it:

1) Combine these two services into a single one, with notification_options
w,c,r.
2) Create two separate contacts for yourself in your contact.cfg file, using
the following fragments as a guide:

define contact {
name    myname-email
service_notification_options    w,r
email   my.email.address at domain
# this contact has no pager address defined
}

define contact {
name    myname-pager
service_notification_options    c,r
pager   my.pager.number
# this contact has no email address defined
}

3) Add these contacts to the contact group which receives notifications for
this service.

Yes, this might mean each of your users has a number of different listings
in the contact.cfg file, depending on your notification and service setup.
But it's a lot better than getting inappropriate notifications, right?


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