Arbitrary alert processing

[Gareth Beale]

Looks promising, thanks. I will try it out.

Gareth

Morris, Patrick wrote:
> Maybe this will work for you:
>
> http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/cgiincludes.html
>
> Gareth Beale wrote:
>> I'm looking at replacing a system that was used to monitor production 
>> systems.
>>
>> It performed two basic functions:
>>
>> 1. Monitor hosts (using ping) and alert the operations staff if a 
>> host went down.
>> 2. Receive arbitrary text messages sent to it and display them, 
>> possibly with an audio alert, on the console.
>>    This was achieved by using remote copy to put a text file (with 
>> several delimited fields) in a specific directory on the monitoring 
>> system. A process checked the directory periodically and displayed 
>> any messages found there, after interpreting the fields in the text 
>> file.
>>
>> Nagios is a no-brainer for the first function, and although it 
>> wouldn't be hard to write a simple script to do part 2, I'd like to 
>> incorporate it into nagios. One of the reasons that I'm going to use 
>> nagios in the first place is that it is browser based. If the support 
>> staff get a call at home, they can display the nagios dashboard and 
>> see exactly what the operations staff are seeing. So I'd like the 
>> text alerts to be there too. I'm not aware of a plugin that provides 
>> this capability, nor have I seen popups for the nagios pages. I am 
>> aware of the Win-popups but I want the messaging incorporated into 
>> the nagios display. I know too that host comments can be added by 
>> external commands, but comments are not very visible or "loud".
>>
>> I hope that is clear. I can follow up if not. Any suggestions?
>>
>>
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