I'm looking at replacing a system that was used to monitor production systems.
It performed two basic functions: 1. Monitor hosts (using ping) and alert the operations staff if a host went down. 2. Receive arbitrary text messages sent to it and display them, possibly with an audio alert, on the console. This was achieved by using remote copy to put a text file (with several delimited fields) in a specific directory on the monitoring system. A process checked the directory periodically and displayed any messages found there, after interpreting the fields in the text file. Nagios is a no-brainer for the first function, and although it wouldn't be hard to write a simple script to do part 2, I'd like to incorporate it into nagios. One of the reasons that I'm going to use nagios in the first place is that it is browser based. If the support staff get a call at home, they can display the nagios dashboard and see exactly what the operations staff are seeing. So I'd like the text alerts to be there too. I'm not aware of a plugin that provides this capability, nor have I seen popups for the nagios pages. I am aware of the Win-popups but I want the messaging incorporated into the nagios display. I know too that host comments can be added by external commands, but comments are not very visible or "loud". I hope that is clear. I can follow up if not. Any suggestions? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Join us December 9, 2009 for the Red Hat Virtual Experience, a free event focused on virtualization and cloud computing. Attend in-depth sessions from your desk. Your couch. Anywhere. http://p.sf.net/sfu/redhat-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ 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
