Digest Method

[Hugo van der Kooij]

On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Fred wrote:

>
> I was wondering if Nagios has a configuration setting that would send
> errors grouped into one email?
>
> I added some website checking and ended up with around 600 services.
> 100 of those services were Warnings and 50 were critical.
>
> By the next morning my email client was locked up with around 5000
> emails in it.
>
> If I could get nagios setup to only send 1 email with all the current
> errors/warnings every 5 minutes, it would not lock up my email account,
> but let me check all of our websites, etc.

With these numbers one should not use normal email for volatile things. At 
least I would recommend against it.

I would use the firefox plugin to babysit such a volatile environment.
But that is just me. (In fact I would not babysit such a darn thing but go 
in and do some serious troubleshooting with a nice submachinegun. ;)

You could always setup something like mailman and let it do the digests 
for you.

Or send them to a dummy email box, parse them with procmail and use a nice 
parser to process the procmail log to make your digest for you.

Hugo.

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