What did we recover from?

[Chet Luther]

On 2/3/06, Andrew Laden <Andrew.Laden at tudor.com> wrote:
>
> Is there some macro that we can use when a recovery alert was sent out to
> indicate what we recovered from? I.E. Warning, or Critical?
>
> I am writing my own notification module, since the notification and
> escalation rules that nagios provides don't meet my needs. (I need much
> finer control of who gets noitified for what.)

As did I.

> The problem I am having is how to avoid sending recovery pages to people who
> didn't get the problem pages. I want to be stateless, so I can't track who
> was sent the page. The idea is to determine what level the recover is for
> (ie, critical or warn), see if the user would have gotten a page for that
> service/problem level, and if so, send the recovery page.

I think the easiest solution is just to keep state on your notifications.

> I was thinking of playing with the $LASTSERVICE*$ macros, but cant figure
> out an algorithm that will work for both the
> OK -> CRIT -> OK, case and the OK -> WARN -> CRIT -> WARN -> OK case, vs the
> OK -> WARN -> OK case.
>
> Any ideas?

You can find my notification plugin that handles issues like this at
http://chet.crashed.net/notify.pl.txt.  You can probably find some
ideas that you can use in there.

--
Chet Luther
chet.luther at gmail.com


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