Adam Forsyth wrote: > I'm monitoring lots of different services on various hosts with > Nagios. Many of these things are very useful for me to monitor as the > sys admin, but when alerts occur occur with them, they do not > represent downtime for our users, they represent problems I should fix > proactively before they result in user noticeable downtime. For > example, if Nagios notices a fan failure on one of my Procurve > switches, I as the admin want to know about the problem, and probably > want to replace the failing fan during the next scheduled maintenance > time. The switch is still running just fine, however and there is no > effect on service to users. Currently when I get such a notification, > I'd acknowledge the problem, and it would stay in critical state until > I've fixed the problem. > > What I'd like to create is a more end user targeted display of Nagios > data. It would display OK or Alert status based only on whether the > particular service is up or down from the user perspective, and > wouldn't show any of the proactive nice for the sys admin to know > about details. So in the case of the procurve switch, as long as the > fan failure hasn't made the entire switch crash (we can still ping it) > it would remain in an OK state. > > The only way I can think of to accomplish this would be to make a > second installation of nagios. It would be a lot of duplicate > configuration, but many of the services would be left out. I think > that would create this second end user display as I'm imagining it, > but it would come at the expense of having to maintain 2 sets of > configuration files, and the server would have to do duplicate > checking of lots of the services and hosts. > > Can anyone think of a better way to accomplish this that wouldn't need > to involve duplication of checks?
We have installed two of these for clients with Nagios in their networks. The best way we found, YMMV, was to use NagioSL. We wrote a flash app to poll NagioSL for devices to display on a pretty non-threatening map. We then wrote a new alert script that updates the flash map with any alerts/recoveries. It's rough around the edges but it works. DAve -- "Posterity, you will know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in heaven that ever I took half the pains to preserve it." John Quincy Adams http://appleseedinfo.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null