Nagios and notification

Daniel Drown dan-fedora-i at drown.org
Mon Jul 2 19:47:14 UTC 2007


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.




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