<html> <head> <style></style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'> Another possible option that may help keep the problems in the faces of the admin is the Firefox or Chrome plugin called Nagios Checker. A statusbar indicator of the Nagios console shows warnings, criticals in the browser taskbar. Its a nice little tool Steve <hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 10:55:29 -0500 From: aengelmann@libertymgt.com To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Warning Alerts <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=unicode"> <meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft SafeHTML"> <style> .ExternalClass .ecxshape {;} </style> <style> .ExternalClass p.ecxMsoNormal, .ExternalClass li.ecxMsoNormal, .ExternalClass div.ecxMsoNormal {margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman','serif';} .ExternalClass a:link, .ExternalClass span.ecxMsoHyperlink {color:blue;text-decoration:underline;} .ExternalClass a:visited, .ExternalClass span.ecxMsoHyperlinkFollowed {color:purple;text-decoration:underline;} .ExternalClass p.ecxecxmsonormal, .ExternalClass li.ecxecxmsonormal, .ExternalClass div.ecxecxmsonormal {margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman','serif';} .ExternalClass span.ecxEmailStyle18 {font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif';color:#1F497D;} .ExternalClass .ecxMsoChpDefault {font-size:10.0pt;} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in;} .ExternalClass div.ecxSection1 {page:Section1;} </style> <div class="ecxSection1"> I definitely considered escalations; I was actually reading more about it this morning. At the moment I have alerts for Hosts and Services alerting every 10 minutes (I am keeping the very simple function of acknowledgements a secret for now). The other guys on my team know not to acknowledge anything until some real work is done toward troubleshooting. I was thinking of keeping it simple and hoping that a separate command can be setup to email on warnings (I will customize the MSG that is sent out). I figure that if this person is not keen on browsing the monitoring systems on a daily basis, that alerting on the warnings would be a good training mechanism for him. Can there be a separate command for alerting on warnings only? <div> <div style="border-right: medium none; border-width: 1pt medium medium; border-style: solid none none; border-color: rgb(181, 196, 223) -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color; padding: 3pt 0in 0in;"> From: steve f [mailto:a31modela@hotmail.com] Sent: Monday, February 07, 2011 10:41 AM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Warning Alerts </div> </div> You could set up a Nagios Escalation Notification AKA " The Throw you Under the Bus " Notification where a secondary group ( tertiary, quaternary, quinary, senary, septenary, octonary, nonary, etc ) of people ( techs, managers, etc ) get notified if an alert has not been addressed for x amount of time. http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/escalations.html Steve <div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"> <hr id="ecxstopSpelling" align="center" width="100%" size="2"> </div> Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 09:54:52 -0500 From: aengelmann@libertymgt.com To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] Warning Alerts <div> I have an admin that does not pay very much attention to our Nagios and Cacti servers. If he paid any attention he would have noticed a warning about disk space on our email server and would have investigated and solved the problem before it became critical. Is it possible to setup different alerts for warnings? I would like to setup a warning template to have a quick message like, "Better Check Nagios!!!" And I would send these alerts to all of our admins because this individual is more responsive when light is shed on issues. On that subject, is it possible to monitor and alert for a sudden change in disk space? Our situation is that within 2 days we lost over 80 GB of space and it wasn't until I looked at Nagios that we became aware of the issue. Regards, Austin </div> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The modern datacenter depends on network connectivity to access resources and provide services. The best practices for maximizing a physical server's connectivity to a physical network are well understood - see how these rules translate into the virtual world? http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnlfb _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null </div> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The modern datacenter depends on network connectivity to access resources and provide services. The best practices for maximizing a physical server's connectivity to a physical network are well understood - see how these rules translate into the virtual world? http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnlfb _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null </body> </html>