Once upon a time Saturday 07 July 2007, Karsten Wade wrote: > On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 14:42 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote: > > Starting tonight I'm going to start sending nagios alerts to > > sysadmin-users. If you don't like it suggest something else. > > Does nagios have a built-in and sane-to-use method for grouping alerts? > > For example, I want to hear when docs.fp.o is having troubles, and > that's it. Or docs.fp.o + translate.fp.o, etc. Can nagios support > that? Do we want to support that use? > > If yes, that would help with doing escalations, such that if I don't > respond to emails within X minutes, sms is used. > > Otherwise, I can sub to sysadmin-users and filter out all but the > docs.fp.o alerts. But then I lose the email => sms escalation. Meaning > I'd personally probably dupe every alert to sms, just in case. :) > > Why should this matter if sysadmins are getting the alerts and > responding already? In the case of most of our Web resources, there are > other people responsible or affected by the slightest downtime. It > would save sysadmins some hassle in informing people if we could have > nagios take care of it for us. > > - Karsten We can group services/hosts and have different contacts for them so yes you can get only the ones you want to get Dennis
