[Nagiosplug-help] Email preferred over display.

[Edman Cheung]

I agree, that is an interesting way to handle it, but then it would require
me to remember that a host or service is down.  I'm not very good at
remembering that.  HA!  :)

I will give my colleagues the "hard coded" answer.  And for them to deal
with the web interface.  :)

I'm thinking that could be a feature request, not sure if it's a good idea
because that could create more configuration confusion.

Thanks again ,

Ed

On 8/24/09 5:58 PM, "Marc Mercer" <mmercer at transpera.com> wrote:

> That's definitely an interesting way of handling it, although im not
> sure why you would want a service to "look" ok if it isn't.  Seems
> rather odd.
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Lindsey [mailto:mike+nagiosplug at bettyscout.org]
> Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 5:25 PM
> To: Nagios Plugin Help List
> Subject: Re: [Nagiosplug-help] Email preferred over display.
> 
> Or you could set up an event handler.
> 
> If the event handler gets triggered on a hard critical, write out a
> status file.
> Then modify your check script to always exit 0 if the status file is
> there; or if you prefer, you could do Warning state.  Either way you can
> 
> keep the current status of the service you're checking in the output
> text.
> You would then have either your event handler (on a hard OK) or you
> check script, once the service recovers, delete that temp status file.
> 
> You'll have your one notification, with the alert blipping momentarily
> onto the web gui, and then it will be gone.
> 
> Marc Mercer wrote:
>> The only way to do that is if you actually modify the source code.
> The 
>> alerts and web interface reaction are triggered by check responses, no
> 
>> way around it.
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> *From:* Edman Cheung [mailto:echeung at intelius.com]
>> *Sent:* Monday, August 24, 2009 4:15 PM
>> *To:* Nagios Plugin Help List
>> *Subject:* [Nagiosplug-help] Email preferred over display.
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> Has anyone been able to just have an alert email instead of
> displaying? 
>>  I've looked, Bing'ed, Googgled, no luck.
>> 
>> Basically, I just want one alert to email and not put the alert on the
> 
>> web interface.  If anyone can point me in the right direction, I would
> 
>> really appreciate it!
>> 
>> TIA
>> 
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>> Ed
>> 
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