Looks promising, thanks. I will try it out. Gareth
Morris, Patrick wrote: > Maybe this will work for you: > > http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/cgiincludes.html > > Gareth Beale wrote: >> 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 >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
