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Re: [Nagios-devel] Notification option

Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2003 2:56 pm
by Guest
Dear Sir,

I am writing to thank you for your letter and say,

On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 12:43:38PM -0800, Jeremy T. Bouse wrote:

> This could
> then be setup to work with a pager or SMS system to only notify the
> person that is on "call" duty...
>

that I think it is already possible to do this in an SMS context

1 provide a contact to Nag with a symbolic name, 'networks_on_call'
perhaps

2 have your SMS delivery mechanism (mail to SMS gateway) lookup the
contact names in a phone book

3 Have the 'phone book' facility recognise that should the contact name
be the symbolic name (of an oncall number), it should then consult a
second data source that contains the current individual name of the on-
call contact and then look that name in the phone book

In our case, the phone book is an LDAP accessible directory that's made
available as (apparently) a giant Perl hash of 'user_names' keys and
phone numbers through the Perl tie facility and Net::LDAP.

The on call identities are stored in the file system and modified with a
fill out form that invokes an scp or an ssh echo new_on_call_id >
oncall_file.txt.

> Jeremy

I think this is easier to do than to say. It's something like a phone
book with one level of indirection (for oncall names).

Yours sincerely.



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Stanley Hopcroft
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'...No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the
continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a
manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes
me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know
for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee...'

from Meditation 17, J Donne.





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