Repeating failed notifications?

[Andrew Miklas]

Hi,

Is there any way to get Nagios to repeat failed notifications?  In  
other words, can Nagios be configured so that if a notification script  
exits with a non-zero return value, the script will be run again after  
a short interval?

For a bit of background, I'm working on a way to pass events from  
Nagios to the PagerDuty alerting system (www.pagerduty.com).   
PagerDuty collects events from external monitoring tools like Nagios  
and sends out phone calls & SMSes based on user-provided schedules and  
escalation chains.

Right now, people who want to use PagerDuty to deliver their Nagios  
alerts must redirect their Nagios email to a PagerDuty-supplied email  
address.  While this works reasonably well, we'd like to offer a  
plugin so we can better integrate with Nagios.

I'm planning on doing this by writing a little Perl script that  
invokes the PagerDuty HTTP API.  The script would be run as a Nagios  
notification command.  One obvious downside to this approach is that  
if there's a network problem, notifications will be lost, hence the  
question above.


-- Andrew
(co-founder @ PagerDuty)


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