Email notification when Disabling notification on service

[npolite]

Hi All,

Someone on my team disabled notifications for a service and forgot to re-enable them after they resolved the issue. This caused of course another issue which we didn't catch. My manager is asking if there is a way to send a notification out when a service is disabled. Is this something that can be done in the configuration?


Thanks

[pbroste]

Hello,

Thanks for reaching out, and hope things are going well.
There are several service checks plugins available that you could use to check if the service is running and/or stopped, the option to change the check within the plugin for other options to check for as well. Here are several examples:

• check_init_service
• check_services
• check_systemd_service

Thanks,
Perry

[npolite]

Hi Perry and thanks for the response. I don't think this is what I need. What I am looking for is if someone goes into the web console and for example disables check_disk check that we get notified that it was disabled.

Is there alternative way to have each unique login logged in the nagios.log when a service is disabled or anything done with the service?

[mcapra]

Think you're going to need to write a script for this. There's nothing native to Nagios that would do this to my knowledge.

Is there alternative way to have each unique login logged in the nagios.log when a service is disabled or anything done with the service?

log_external_commands can be set within your Nagios config file, but this only captures when commands (like "disable service notifications") are submit to the external commands file, not who submit them.

[npolite]

Thanks mcapra. I had a feeling but wanted to confirm.

[gormank]

Sorry to interrupt, but...
Where is the info on disabled notifications stored or logged? I was looking in the logs in /usr/local/nagios/var but see much. Maybe in the objects or status files?