Alternating Notification Commands

[Steven Kreuzer]

I am trying to avoid that because it seems like it would get fairly  
difficult to manage and makes
the config alot more difficult to read, especially if you happen to  
have a whole bunch of
people who need to receive alerts.

But from what I can tell, this looks like the only possible solution

On Dec 2, 2008, at 2:41 PM, Seth Simmons wrote:

> You want to configure Nagios to send alerts by email during the day by
> sms the rest of the time?
> Why don't you just create 2 separate contact definitions, one for  
> email
> and one for sms with different time definitions?
>
> Would look something like this:
>
> define contact{
> 	contact_name			sysadmin-1
> 	use					generic-contact
> 	alias					sysadmin workhours
> 	host_notification_period	workhours
> 	service_notification_period	workhours
> 	host_notification_options	d,r
> 	service_notification_options	w,c,r
> 	email					sysadmin at mydomain.com
> 	}
>
> define contact{
> 	contact_name			sysadmin-2
> 	use					generic-contact
> 	alias					sysadmin after work
> 	host_notification_period	afterwork
> 	service_notification_period	afterwork
> 	host_notification_options	d,r
> 	service_notification_options	w,c,r
> 	email					2125553000 at txt.att.net
> 	}
>
> define timeperiod{
> 	timeperiod_name	workhours
> 	alias		Normal Work Hours
> 	monday		08:00-16:59
> 	tuesday		08:00-16:59
> 	wednesday		08:00-16:59
> 	thursday		08:00-16:59
> 	friday		08:00-16:59
> 	}
>
> define timeperiod{
> 	timeperiod_name	afterwork
> 	alias		Normal Work Hours
> 	monday		17:00-24:00
> 	tuesday		17:00-24:00
> 	wednesday		17:00-24:00
> 	thursday		17:00-24:00
> 	friday		17:00-24:00
> 	saturday		00:00-24:00
> 	sunday		00:00-24:00
> 	}
>
> define service{
> 	use						local-service
> 	hostgroup_name				Linux
> 	service_description			Load Average
> 	check_command				check_nrpe!check_load
> 	max_check_attempts			2
> 	check_interval				10
> 	retry_interval				5
> 	check_period				24x7
> 	notification_interval			60
> 	first_notification_delay		0
> 	notification_period			24x7
> 	contacts
> sysadmin-1,sysadmin-2
> 	notification_options			c,w,r
> 	}
>
> As far as certain services sms only, use the 24x7 time period, create
> contact for the 24x7 time period and configure the service  
> accordingly.
>
>
> define contact{
> 	contact_name			sysadmin-3
> 	use					generic-contact
> 	alias					sysadmin sms
> 	host_notification_period	24x7
> 	service_notification_period	24x7
> 	host_notification_options	d,r
> 	service_notification_options	w,c,r
> 	email					2125553000 at txt.att.net
> 	}
>
> define service{
> 	use					local-service
> 	hostgroup_name			linux
> 	service_description		Free Space on /
> 	check_command			check_nrpe!check_root
> 	max_check_attempts		2
> 	check_interval			15
> 	retry_interval			5
> 	check_period			24x7
> 	notification_interval		60
> 	first_notification_delay	0
> 	notification_period		24x7
> 	contacts				sysadmin-3
> 	notification_options		c,w,r
> 	}
>
> The way that is configured, any problems with load in your linux
> hostgroup will send notification by email during the day and by sms
> after hours/weekends.  The second example will send by sms at any time
> for any alerts with free space.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven Kreuzer [mailto:skreuzer at exit2shell.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 2, 2008 2:08 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Alternating Notification Commands
>
> Greetings-
>
> In addition to the two included commands for sending notifications, I
> defined two new ones called notify-host-by-sms and notify-service-by-
> sms.
>
> What I would like to do is configure nagios to have it send alerts by
> email during normal business hours and send alerts by sms the rest
> of the time. I would also like to configure certain critical services
> to only alert by sms regardless of the time of day.
>
> From what I can tell, there does not appear to be a straight forward
> way to do this because "host_notification_commands" and
> "service_notification_commands" are defined under "contact". It looks
> like I would have to
> create two contacts for each person, one with their email and one with
> their pager.
>
> Is there any way around this?
>
> Thanks
>
> Steven Kreuzer
> http://www.exit2shell.com/~skreuzer
>
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