[Nagios-devel] Improving notifications - offer to code/RFC/etc.

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[Nagios-devel] Improving notifications - offer to code/RFC/etc.

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I sent this message a few weeks ago to the -users list, and haven't seen
a response. So I'm starting a new thread here.

> Joe Rhett wrote:
> >The problem is that a given person really only wants to have a single
> >nagios login to see everything they own, but need to customize the alerts
> >they receive.

On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 10:04:19AM +0100, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> Make a third contact with the login-name and set its
> notification-options to 'n'. Make it a member of all contactgroups where
> any of its notification aliases is a member.

This doesn't scale beyond 2-3 people before trying to track all the
references become mindboggling.

How about using a separator character in the name? Nagios itself treats all
contacts as normal. The WebUI drops the separator and everything after it
in the calculation of 'visible'.

For example:

jrhett#mailonly
jrhett#only9-5
jrhett#emergencies

The normal notification routines are unmodified, and treat these as three
separate entities. But the WebUI drops #.... and thus 'jrhett' can see
anything that any of the three are assigned?

This is a VERY common F-A-Q. If I found a way to code this, would it be
accepted as a feature?

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Joe Rhett
senior geek
SVcolo : Silicon Valley Colocation





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