If Nagios didn't also fire an event handler for EVERY status change, their
documentation seems to suggest it would be a bug...
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/eventhandlers.html
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On Sep 17, 2013 8:09 AM, "Denis Simonet" <denis.simo...@adfinis-sygroup.ch>
wrote:
> > an eventhandler behaves differently than the notification logic does. so
> > *if* you're comparing things, you should look for eventhandlers.
> >
> > and yet, i doubt the behaviour change unless proven with a working
> > example from both core versions.
> Well, it is possible that this changed with newer Nagios versions. It
> seems to be worth a try to verify - I will send another eMail as soon as
> I did so.
>
> > so your eventhandler wraps the notification logic into its very own
> > algorithm and does the voodoo inside. i'd rather look for errors in your
> > script then, catching up with "host down, don't send service
> notification".
> I didn't check this in our logic up to now because when we used nagios,
> nagios was doing it. Or at least I thought that it would do so. The
> question should have been: Why does the event handler trigger for
> services when their host is down?
>
> >
> > that's a very common case that eventhandlers get called even if the host
> > is down...
> > http://docs.icinga.org/latest/en/eventhandlers.html#execution
> >
> > and well - for the interested readers - why can't icinga handle the
> > notification logic itsself, and why are you using a proprietary event
> > handler wrapper for that?
> We wrote a frontend application for Icinga (formerly Nagios) where we
> can administer hosts and export configuration files for Icinga. In the
> same applications teams can be configured on a daily basis. The alerting
> itself is done in a round robin way and the alerts are all logged in our
> application. Therefore it was the easiest solution to write an own
> daemon application which does the alerting.
>
> > next time, please tell about that in the first place. makes error lookup
> > pretty hard if one thinks of notifications, but the user (you) is just
> > using eventhandlers. totally different part of the story.
> I accidentially messed up notification with event handler - I don't
> think this is a crime :P
>
> Denis
>
>
>
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