Nagios Support Forum

Nagios XI 2012R2.9
RHEL 6.5 x64
Manual Install

Please advice how to configure sound alerts for Host & service alerts.

Thanks

Currently, the only solid way to do this is through a firefox addon found here:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... s-checker/

I've played with this in the past and by using event handlers you can trigger a computer to play a sound.

For example, you might have a PC that is your monitoring wall computer.
You could configure Nagios to trigger an event handler for specific checks.
The event handler will basically execute a script on the monitoring wall computer that plays a sound file.

slansing wrote:Currently, the only solid way to do this is through a firefox addon found here:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... s-checker/

This is a problem as our company standard browser is IE only.
Any other options?

Box293 wrote:I've played with this in the past and by using event handlers you can trigger a computer to play a sound.

For example, you might have a PC that is your monitoring wall computer.
You could configure Nagios to trigger an event handler for specific checks.
The event handler will basically execute a script on the monitoring wall computer that plays a sound file.

Did I understand you correctly?
Nagios server triggers a script on the client?

Yes thats right.

For exmaple:

• The PC you want to have the sound played on is a Windows PC and has NSClient++ installed
  You create a scipt that plays the sound file on the computer
  You edit the NSClient++ config file to include the script that plays the sound file
  On the Nagios XI host you create a command that executes the script on the PC via NSClient++
  You then edit the service, on the check settings tab there is a drop down list called Event handler -> select the command you just created
  Make sure you also select event handler enabled to on
  Save and apply config

Now whenever that service changes state, it will play the sound file.

You can create a service template that has the event handler defined and then assign the template to different services. This way if you need to change the event handler all you need to do is update the template.

Nagios can do whatever you want!

*edit note* I had a brain fade the other day and realised I explained this wrong, I updated it.