On Mon, 02 Jul 2007, Mike McGrath wrote: > I'm moving our production nagios install onto its own machine with cacti > (noc1) We've had a few false positives because lockbox is just too busy > with other things. In the process of this move I was wondering how we > should do nagios notifications. I see two options: > > 1) Create a nagios group for just generic all notifications > 2) make admins add themselves about what to be notified about > 3) Auto add people in a group to the notifications list and make them > customize if necessary. > > Prior to the move to noc1. We used 3). Speaking as someone who recieves lots of alerts, I personally like a combination of #1 and #2. All notifications go to a dedicated mail list that people can filter however they like, and they can sign up for individual notifications to be sent to their SMS/private email/whatever.