> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]=20
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf=20
> Of Ethan Galstad
> Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 6:32 AM
> To: Nagios-Devel
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-devel] "combining" notification emails?
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> Rob Brown wrote:
> > Currently, as I understand it: the notification logic works=20
> roughly as
> > follows: (i know i'm leaving out a lot)
> > 1) service/host goes down.
> > 2) Determine whether or not to send notification
> > 2) If so, iterate through contact group(s) listed for that
> > host/service and run notification command for each user.
> > In this case, a seperate email is sent to each user who is=20
> in the contact group.
> > I would love to see a configuration option in Nagios that=20
> would allow
> > ONE message to be sent for each notification with ALL of=20
> the contacts
> > listed in the To: header. This would allow contacts to=20
> "see" who else
> > was notified about this problem and use the "reply to all"=20
> feature to
> > generate discussion threads.
> > If it would be possible to "flip" the logic this way via a
> > configuration option, that would rock.
> > aggregate_notifications=3D0/1
> > 0 =3D default method: seperate message to each contact
> > 1 =3D aggregate method: one message to all contacts
> > Currently the notification command is assigned to each contact: I
> > assume this would need to move to the contact group definition.
> > I would interested to hear others' opinions on the topic.
> > Perhaps there is another way to accomplish this that I=20
> cannot think of
> > or there is a good reason why not to do it.
> >=20
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> This might be a bit tougher to accomplish than would first=20
> appear. The=20
> reason is that notifications don't necessarily have to be via email -=20
> they are performed by external commands which can do=20
> arbitrary things.=20
> Nagios could be designed to understand combining multiple=20
> messages into=20
> one using multiple To: addresses, but email is just one of=20
> many possible=20
> notification methods (albeit a common one).
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> Another option would be to have Nagios send notifications to=20
> an external=20
> app, which is responsible for grouping notifications together as you=20
> mentioned. Sounds like a good addon project if you ask me.
There are already some available. E.g.:
http://www.nagiosexchange.org/Notificat ... nagext_pi1[
p_view]=3D309
http://www.nagiosexchange.org/Notificat ... nagext_pi1[
p_view]=3D186
Julian
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