[Nagios-users] Alternating Notification Commands

[Steven Kreuzer]

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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Re: [Nagios-users] 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_namesysadmin-1
   use generic-contact
   alias   sysadmin workhours
   host_notification_periodworkhours
   service_notification_period workhours
   host_notification_options   d,r
   service_notification_optionsw,c,r
   email   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   }

 define contact{
   contact_namesysadmin-2
   use generic-contact
   alias   sysadmin after work
   host_notification_periodafterwork
   service_notification_period afterwork
   host_notification_options   d,r
   service_notification_optionsw,c,r
   email   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   }

 define timeperiod{
   timeperiod_name workhours
   alias   Normal Work Hours
   monday  08:00-16:59
   tuesday 08:00-16:59
   wednesday   08:00-16:59
   thursday08:00-16:59
   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
   thursday17:00-24:00
   friday  17:00-24:00
   saturday00:00-24:00
   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_period24x7
   notification_interval   60
   first_notification_delay0
   notification_period 24x7
   contacts
 sysadmin-1,sysadmin-2
   notification_optionsc,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_namesysadmin-3
   use generic-contact
   alias   sysadmin sms
   host_notification_period24x7
   service_notification_period 24x7
   host_notification_options   d,r
   service_notification_optionsw,c,r
   email   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   }

 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_period24x7
   notification_interval   60
   first_notification_delay0
   notification_period 24x7
   contactssysadmin-3
   notification_optionsc,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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Tuesday, December 2, 2008 2:08 PM
 To: nagios-users@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