Re-Enable Checks or Alerting Automatically
Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2019 5:11 pm
OK if this has been asked before I apologize, I have to believe it has been but I cannot seem to find it.
But is there a way to automate a period after which host checks, or notifications will automatically be re-enabled? The issue I am trying to solve is notifications get silenced due to work, or an outage but then they are simply forgotten and left disabled.. Or invalid service checks are defined, and rather than raise this so the checks themselves can be corrected they are just turned off.
I am looking at how I can make this impossible, by defining a period after which any disabled alert will be re-enabled.. Note I believe I could do this with a cron job and some creativity, but what I want would be a rolling window.. Say after 48 hours re-enable, not "At 4am sunday re-enable everything disabled"
I want people to be able to disable alerts for maintenance, but not just forget about them and never re-enable..
But is there a way to automate a period after which host checks, or notifications will automatically be re-enabled? The issue I am trying to solve is notifications get silenced due to work, or an outage but then they are simply forgotten and left disabled.. Or invalid service checks are defined, and rather than raise this so the checks themselves can be corrected they are just turned off.
I am looking at how I can make this impossible, by defining a period after which any disabled alert will be re-enabled.. Note I believe I could do this with a cron job and some creativity, but what I want would be a rolling window.. Say after 48 hours re-enable, not "At 4am sunday re-enable everything disabled"
I want people to be able to disable alerts for maintenance, but not just forget about them and never re-enable..