Safely testing notifications from 2nd nagios host

[mleo40]

I have cloned my very large nagios production environment into a dev environment, and I have disabled notifications universally in dev.

However, I need to test my new config's and notification types but without actually sending legit problems from the dev nagios server.

Without picking through and removing or changing my notification contacts for everything, can I selectively send notifications to myself somehow without triggering alerts to to real people?

Does a host definition "notifications_enabled=yes" override the nagios "enable_notification=(no)" ?

[hsmith]

Does a host definition "notifications_enabled=yes" override the nagios "enable_notification=(no)" ?

It does not.

Without picking through and removing or changing my notification contacts for everything, can I selectively send notifications to myself somehow without triggering alerts to to real people?

Not that I can think of off the top of my head, unfortunately. Would the bulk modification tool work for you?

[mleo40]

I don't know what that is, and is it available for core 4.1.1?

[hsmith]

I don't know what that is, and is it available for core 4.1.1?

That's my mistake. For some reason I thought I was posting in the XI forum. It's not available in Core. Being that this is core though, it may be pretty easy to whip up a sedcommand or two to clean this up for you. We could just bulk change notifications enabled to 0 instead of 1, and then manually fix the ones you're interested in.

Does that make sense? Again, sorry for the confusion.

[mleo40]

no worries...thanks for replying.

if it's not possible this thread can be closed out.

[hsmith]

Well, it depends on what you mean by not possible.

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sed -i  's/notifications_enabled.*1/notifications_enabled\t\t\t0/g' templates.cfg

Would change turn notifications off in the file templates.cfg for instance

[mleo40]

Possible with regards to not undoing all my existing config's, or via some easy "built-in" tool.

Everything is possible with the right shell command!

But that solution requires there to be an existing line item for each template already, which I don't.

However...that does give me a path forward. thanks!

[hsmith]

Hopefully it helps, would you like this locked at this point?