How to use pagerduty

[jcamillo]

What is the best way to configure pagerduty with Nagios XI?

Thanks
Joe

[scottwilkerson]

I haven't used their service but they have a guide for adding it to core here
http://www.pagerduty.com/docs/guides/na ... tion-guide

With that, it looks like the steps should be something like this (not tested):

Install the necessary Perl dependencies:

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yum install perl-libwww-perl perl-Crypt-SSLeay

Download pagerduty_nagios.cfg

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cd /usr/local/nagios/etc
 wget http://www.pagerduty.com/configs/pagerduty_nagios.cfg

Open the file in your favorite editor.
Enter the service key corresponding to your Nagios service into the pager field. The service key is a 32 character string that can be found on the service’s detail page.
Copy the Nagios configuration file into place:


Edit the Nagios config to load the PagerDuty config. To do this, open /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg and add this line to the file:

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cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/pagerduty_nagios.cfg

Add the contact “pagerduty” to your Nagios configuration’s main contact group.

Create User pagerduty and add them to the admins contactgroup

Download pagerduty_nagios.pl to /usr/local/nagiosxi/cron.

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cd /usr/local/nagios/libexec
wget http://www.pagerduty.com/configs/pagerduty_nagios.pl

Make sure the file is executable by Nagios

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chmod 755 /usr/local/nagiosxi/cron/pagerduty_nagios.pl

Enable environment variable macros in /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg (if not enabled already)

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enable_environment_macros=1

Edit the nagios user’s crontab

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crontab -u nagios -e

Add the following line to the crontab

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* * * * * /usr/local/nagiosxi/cron/pagerduty_nagios.pl flush

[jcamillo]

Thanks - I will give it a shot.

[jparker]

I am trying to follow the instructions you had here and I am getting an error applying the configuration once adding "pagerduty" to the nagios configurations as a contact.

this is the error I am getting from the log:


Processing object config file '/usr/local/nagios/etc/pagerduty_nagios.cfg'...
Warning: Duplicate definition found for contact 'pagerduty' (config file '/usr/local/nagios/etc/pagerduty_nagios.cfg', starting on line 1)
Error: Could not add object property in file '/usr/local/nagios/etc/pagerduty_nagios.cfg' on line 2.
Error processing object config files!