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Hi , I would like to try to write the handler. However I still cant get the idea how this handler works. If i use global event handler, and the handler is if email fails then sms, does that mean that contacts should not have any host/service notification enabled , because that already configured on ...

Hi,
I am sorry i cant find any notification handler to handle "if email fails, then sms"

Appreciate if you could share some idea

or is it still ok to use the steps earlier: check_smtp > critical > event handler >script to sed


Thanks

however, is there any way to to re-comment out sms method once the check_smtp is recovered? More sed / awk ! :) ya ..but what i asking was, since the check_smtp recover will go to (same) event handler . so comment and uncomment should be all done in 1 script , am i correct. If this were my problem ...

Hi dwhitfield, thanks for your reply. understand that there is no failover mechanism , however i would like to ask is my steps below do-able/correct? is there a better way of doing this as workaround? thanks 1. in command.cfg, commented out sms method 2. setup another service check .ie. check_smtp, ...

Hi, I would like to have 2 different notification setup. for example email, and SMS. what i am trying to achieve is , nagios will always send notification using 1st method,ie.email.. however if the email services down, then nagios will use 2nd method.ie.sms to send out notification may i know is thi...

Thanks for your help.

Hi guys, need your assistance here. From the report> availability report> host data, service data are currently not able to insert into dashboard, there isnt a "add this to a dashboard" arrow on the host/service data. May I know is there any way/workaround to do this? Kindly assist, thanks!

Thank you for the information. i'll just wait for the new release..any idea when is it coming out?

Thanks

dwhitfield wrote:@liangwh were you able to perform the upgrade and reapply the patch?

Hi ,
Sorry for late reply.
Actually I have already upgraded to 5.3 in the middle of troubleshooting this issue. Having that said, extending mysql character, new utilsx.inc.php are all done under nagios 5.3.3.

Regards,

Hi ,

Thanks for the utilsx.
Instead of 6 output, it is now up to 70-80 interfaces, but the total interface is around 200-300..kindly assist.
Or kindly let me know which lines to change the limit of the output

Thankss