Re: [Nagios-devel] Feature request - Downtime Notification
Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 12:36 pm
Hi,
On 5/21/2006 9:43 PM, Ethan Galstad wrote:
> Tarrah Gledhill wrote:
>
>> I would like the following feature, but have not found any reference
>> to it's existence.
>>
>> Would it be possible to make a Scheduled Downtime send notification
>> warning contacts of the impending downtime as well as notification at
>> the start/end of the downtime?
...
> This is an excellent idea and I'll put it on the blocks for 3.0.
> Notifying contacts when downtime starts/stops/gets cancelled is easy...
> the $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ macro will be set to one of the following:
>
> DOWNTIMESTART
> DOWNTIMEEND
> DOWNTIMECANCELLED
>
> Does anyone have objections to this?
>
...
> A possible solution would be allowing for "custom" notifications that
> can be initiated by users through the web interface. The
> $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ macro could be set to "CUSTOM" and author/comment
> data could be available in the $xACKAUTHOR$ $xACKDATA$ macros (or
> perhaps new macros are in order). Custom notifications might be useful
> for a number of reasons - e.g. relaying updates on the status of fixes.
> When downtime is scheduled, an option could be added to the web
> interface that would allow a custom notification to be sent out
> notifying contacts of the downtime that was scheduled.
>
> How does the custom notification feature sound to folks?
Sounds good.
Arno Lehmann,
Nagios User
> Ethan Galstad,
> Nagios Developer
--
IT-Service Lehmann [email protected]
Arno Lehmann http://www.its-lehmann.de
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On 5/21/2006 9:43 PM, Ethan Galstad wrote:
> Tarrah Gledhill wrote:
>
>> I would like the following feature, but have not found any reference
>> to it's existence.
>>
>> Would it be possible to make a Scheduled Downtime send notification
>> warning contacts of the impending downtime as well as notification at
>> the start/end of the downtime?
...
> This is an excellent idea and I'll put it on the blocks for 3.0.
> Notifying contacts when downtime starts/stops/gets cancelled is easy...
> the $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ macro will be set to one of the following:
>
> DOWNTIMESTART
> DOWNTIMEEND
> DOWNTIMECANCELLED
>
> Does anyone have objections to this?
>
...
> A possible solution would be allowing for "custom" notifications that
> can be initiated by users through the web interface. The
> $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ macro could be set to "CUSTOM" and author/comment
> data could be available in the $xACKAUTHOR$ $xACKDATA$ macros (or
> perhaps new macros are in order). Custom notifications might be useful
> for a number of reasons - e.g. relaying updates on the status of fixes.
> When downtime is scheduled, an option could be added to the web
> interface that would allow a custom notification to be sent out
> notifying contacts of the downtime that was scheduled.
>
> How does the custom notification feature sound to folks?
Sounds good.
Arno Lehmann,
Nagios User
> Ethan Galstad,
> Nagios Developer
--
IT-Service Lehmann [email protected]
Arno Lehmann http://www.its-lehmann.de
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