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just wanted to know that, how do I configure multiple mobile numbers in Nagios to receive alerts via SMS.
Do I have to add numbers separated by comma.

This would either need to be multiple contacts (one for each number) or a customized notification command (more work to set up).

I expect to have a similar need in the future to handle oncall rotations. If you have any, could you post details of what would be needed to define a customized notification command?

I imagine there's a php script that runs a nagios command, and I'd need to define a new command, or modify the (or create a new) .php script. I see various nagios commands defined for handling mail. In looking for a likely .php file I see utils-email.inc.php, and I see that uses PHPMailer, so I guess I may have answered myself...

I expect to have a similar need in the future to handle oncall rotations. If you have any, could you post details of what would be needed to define a customized notification command?

I haven't tried this, but it *should* work. You could use the "$CONTACTADDRESSn$" standard nagios macro.

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/nagi ... ml#contact

addressx: Address directives are used to define additional "addresses" for the contact. These addresses can be anything - cell phone numbers, instant messaging addresses, etc. Depending on how you configure your notification commands, they can be used to send out an alert to the contact. Up to six addresses can be defined using these directives (address1 through address6). The $CONTACTADDRESSx$ macro will contain this value.

how do i configure multiple numbers for shift rotation, what happened if shift changes support engg will also change & so the mobile no. How can I achieve this in Nagios.

I have gone through this Timeperiod Management under CCM. But didnt understand below term.

Template Name

Time Definition


Examples: "monday", "december 25", "use"

Time Range


Examples: "00:00-24:00", "09:00-17:00", "us-holidays"

Insert Definition


using above method can I achieve this ?

You are headed down the right path. You can set up a timeperiod for each engineer using the timeperiods dialogue. Unfortunately we don't have any documentation for the timeperiod dialogue, however it is self documented using the "Help & Documentation" within timeperiod. Shown is an example timeperiod indicating 2:00PM until 10:00PM Monday - Friday. Basically fill in Time Deifiniton and Time Range, to specify a period of time, then hit Insert Definition to add it to the timeperiod.

It may not help this thread, but my solution was to tell the users that as they go on/off on call, they need to log in and set their preferences to enable/disable SMS alerts. Now its their problem

gormank wrote:It may not help this thread, but my solution was to tell the users that as they go on/off on call, they need to log in and set their preferences to enable/disable SMS alerts. Now its their problem

That certainly is a solution that should work, however setting up a few timeperiods and assigning them to a contact is pretty trival.

confgured the time period accordingly. But in one go how do I set this policy to all servers/number of servers which are being monitoring through XI

I think what you'd actually want is all servers/services to continue to use 24x7 but assign the rotating timeperiods to your contacts.

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