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[email protected] wrote:
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> Hi -
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> In nagios v1.x (and possibly in 2.x) we have these notificationlevels: ok, warning and critical.
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> I would like to have more notificationlevels to play with.
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> If we compare with IBMs Tivoli they have several more levels Harmless,Warning,Minior,Critical and Fatal.
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> Tivoli also enables you to define your own level (not to straightforward though)
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> It seems to me that it would be easy to implement new levels in nagios also.
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> F.x.a return-code of 4 might be defined as "fatal" or "catastrophic"
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Nagios does this too, but with a much higher level of granularity,
through the use of escalations. That way you can specify for how long a
critical state should be considered non-fatal, which is something Tivoli
can't do.

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