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Easiest way to Mass change contact group settings for Alerts
Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2012 8:22 am
by isadmin
I have been asked to re-organize the way our contact groups are notified. This would have been a little tedious but easy
just editing the older version text configs.
Since our migration to the NEW Nagios XI broke out all host and services to individual config files that cannot be easily modifed what is the best way to accomplish this.
He is our scenario.
All notifications are set to contact Helpdesk Contact Group, Admins, etc....basically everyone is notified...
Now we want
All Windows Servers and/or services need to notify Windows Admins first then escalate to Helpdesk.
Same for Router Admins, Linux Admins etc....
Since all service notifications and host notifications are individual configs I dont want to point and click through 2000 Web sittings you know?
Would the escalation Wizards solve all of this easily and change all current settings already in effect?
Thanks
Re: Easiest way to Mass change contact group settings for Al
Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2012 9:45 am
by scottwilkerson
I would use Configure -> CCM -> Tools -> Bulk Modification Tool to make the changes for the initial alert. One caveat is that we just found a bug in sourceguardian that can affect the use of this tool, so you will want to do the following first
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cd /tmp
wget http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagiosxi/patches/patch_sourceguardian.zip
unzip -u patch_sourceguardian.zip
chmod +x patch_sourceguardian.sh
./patch_sourceguardian.sh
Then, I would setup the escalation with the Configure -> CCM -> Tools -> Escalation Wizard.
Re: Easiest way to Mass change contact group settings for Al
Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2012 12:13 pm
by isadmin
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Receiving error updating
2012-11-19 11:09:13 (1.25 MB/s) - `patch_sourceguardian.zip.1' saved [2431978/2431978]
[root@server]# unzip -u patch_sourceguardian.zip
Archive: patch_sourceguardian.zip
[root@server tmp]# chmod +x patch_sourceguardian.sh
[root@server tmp]# ./patch_sourceguardian.sh
Archive: sourceguardian/ixed4.lin.x86-64.zip
checkdir: cannot create extraction directory: /usr/lib/php/modules
No such file or directory
Re: Easiest way to Mass change contact group settings for Al
Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2012 12:19 pm
by scottwilkerson
Oh darn it, can you edit patch_sourceguardian.sh change the path on line 18 from /usr/lib/php/modules to /usr/lib64/php/modules
Then
Re: Easiest way to Mass change contact group settings for Al
Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2012 12:26 pm
by isadmin
patch succeeded will check the tools out now...Thanks again Scott!
Re: Easiest way to Mass change contact group settings for Al
Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2012 3:34 pm
by isadmin
Hmm something in the tools wiped my contacts contact groups....no users have contact groups now?
And I am receiving alerts for a contact group I dont belong too? Not sure where to start digging on this on. Going off shift but will dig in the morning.
Re: Easiest way to Mass change contact group settings for Al
Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2012 3:53 pm
by scottwilkerson
That is strange, the tool shouldn't modify a contact's contact group settings at all...
Re: Easiest way to Mass change contact group settings for Al
Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2012 7:50 am
by isadmin
Scott also I noticed many services stating they dont have notification times. This had to be caused by Bulk Change tool 286 Warnings on "No Notification Time Period Defined" now
...and many Services not alerting correctly. We have always used Service Templates and Notification Groups for our alerting.
I dont see a choice in Bulk Modifications to apply a template to services/hosts.
Now we never used service groups in our old Nagios core configs could this be the issue?
and I havent ran the escalations wizard yet as I was wanting everything cleaned-up before hand.
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partial output..
Warning: Service 'Services for VMHost' on host 'vm7' has no notification time period defined!
Warning: Service 'VM Status for VMHost' on host 'vm7' has no check time period defined!
Warning: Service 'VM Status for VMHost' on host 'vm7' has no notification time period defined!
Warning: Service 'Ping' on host 'waupaca-router' has no check time period defined!
Warning: Service 'Ping' on host 'waupaca-router' has no notification time period defined!
Warning: Service 'Ping' on host 'waupun-router' has no check time period defined!
Warning: Service 'Ping' on host 'waupun-router' has no notification time period defined!
Checked 1093 services.
Checking hosts...
Checked 727 hosts.
Checking host groups...
Checked 12 host groups.
Checking service groups...
Checked 0 service groups.
Checking contacts...
Checked 21 contacts.
Checking contact groups...
Checked 14 contact groups.
Checking service escalations...
Checked 0 service escalations.
Checking service dependencies...
Checked 0 service dependencies.
Checking host escalations...
Checked 0 host escalations.
Checking host dependencies...
Checked 562 host dependencies.
Checking commands...
Checked 178 commands.
Checking time periods...
Checked 26 time periods.
Checking for circular paths between hosts...
Checking for circular host and service dependencies...
Checking global event handlers...
Checking obsessive compulsive processor commands...
Checking misc settings...
Total Warnings: 286
Total Errors: 0
Re: Easiest way to Mass change contact group settings for Al
Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2012 11:08 am
by scottwilkerson
This wasn't caused by the bulk mod component, it is another bug we are working on. Here is the fix
go to Configure -> CCM -> Tools -> Static Configurations
Select /usr/local/nagios/etc/static/xiobjects.cfg
Load File
Remove this time period
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define timeperiod{
timeperiod_name xi_timeperiod_24x7
alias 24x7
sunday 00:00-24:00
monday 00:00-24:00
tuesday 00:00-24:00
wednesday 00:00-24:00
thursday 00:00-24:00
friday 00:00-24:00
saturday 00:00-24:00
}
Save
go to Configure -> CCM -> Time Periods -> xi_timeperiod_24x7 -> Modify
Check Active
Save
Apply Configuration
Re: Easiest way to Mass change contact group settings for Al
Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2012 3:30 pm
by isadmin
errors with missing required field assuming it refers to *description I added the xi_timeperiod_24x7 in description which allowed it to save