So we're setting up some Nagios checks for a new team and they're asking for
something new that I'm not really sure we can do with Nagios. For any
production alerts they want to receive pager alerts every 15 minutes and e-mail
alerts every 60 minutes. Since each host/service definition has only a single
notification_interval setting and contact definitions don't allow a
notification_interval setting, I don't see how this can be done within that
context.
We don't currently use escalations for anything, but I've been staring at them
and trying to figure out how that might work for us. In terms of using
escalations to solve this problem I'm struck by several issues:
- I'd be trying to use escalations to setup an indefinite pattern, not a system
where there's an last_notification where everyone gets the notifications.
- I have to do this for a lot of hosts/services and it doesn't look like I can
wildcard service_descriptions (tried it and it failed).
My other thought is to just have 2 checks for the same service where check A
has the 15-minute notification_interval and goes to pagers and check B has a
1-hour notification_interval and goes to e-mail. And that's for a lot of
services. I can't really do the duplicate checks on hosts. But either way,
you know, "yuck".
I keep thinking there's some easier more obvious solution that's eluding me to
this. Is something that anyone else has solved? I'm inclined to tell them
that we can't do this and get them to unify on one notification_interval like
everyone else, but before I do, I thought I'd ask.
Thanks
Mark
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