PagerDuty is well worth the investment. The time saved by not having to maintain alerting infrastructure and being able to quickly and easily manage oncall and alerting with multiple contact methods more than covers the cost of PD. I've done this at multiple sites, including managing the script you refer to at /. -- it really isn't worth it anymore.
With geographically dispersed teams, it's even nicer since follow-the-sun rotations and easy overrides / maintence windows help prevent on-call spam outside of business hours from a single point instead of all the alert sources. I'm also a fan of the iCal feed for your on-call rotation. Not only is it handy for planning oncall duties around vacations, but in cases where you're going to cover oncall for a few hours for someone, the schedule override pops into your calendar as well so you're not surprised when you get paged. Pingdom recently launched a PagerDuty competitor as well called Beep Manager Pro, and I believe several other Monitorig-As-A-Service platforms have similar features that you may want to look at. -n On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 6:09 AM, Nathan Clemons <[email protected]> wrote: > We're looking to set up small teams in nagios and rotate between primary and > secondary contacts, vs having one global on call person. (Ie, two networking > folks, two vmware folks, two Unix folks, etc.) What kind of solutions have > folks tried for this? Pagerduty seems excessively priced for this kind of > task, especially when we're trying to trim opex costs. When I worked at /. we > used sendmail aliases to control the paging and just ran a script from cron > to adjust the list to the next person in line on Monday morning. > > Thanks. > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ -- ------------------------------------------- nathan hruby <[email protected]> metaphysically wrinkle-free ------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
