Differentiate network hosts vs server hosts alerts

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JumpingSnake
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Differentiate network hosts vs server hosts alerts

Post by JumpingSnake »

Good Morning,
I've been trying to find a previous thread on this, but I couldn't seem to find one: My question is can NagiosXI differentiate between two types of hosts, networking and servers? For instance, if we have a network go down, we'll receive an alert for that router that went down. The exact same type of alert is set if a server went down, just the name changes. Are there any categories for hosts? Is it possible to instead to differentiate sending alerts by hostgroups?
abrist
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Re: Differentiate network hosts vs server hosts alerts

Post by abrist »

JumpingSnake wrote:Is it possible to instead to differentiate sending alerts by hostgroups?
Not really. Your notifications out of the box will have 2 formats - one for services, and one for hosts. If you want more customization than that, you will have to create a custom notification script logic to check certain nagios macros and then send the notifications based on the macros.
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