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How to limit the amout of Nagios SMS notifications?

Hi all,

I have Nagios 3.3.1 setup on Ubuntu Desktop 11.04.

I monitor approx. 50 hosts (mixture of Windows Servers, Switches, Firewalls) by PING only.

Down hosts are notified to me via email and SMS at the moment.

What I would like to so is limit the amount of SMS messages that are sent from my Nokia phone connected to my Ubuntu box.

As it stands I allow 3 checks 1 minute apart before I am alerted via email – after that I am alerted via email every 5 minutes until recovery.

I have just implemented the phone to SMS alerts aswell but I want to limit the amount of texts as I don’t want a text every 5 minutes until recovery for sanity reasons and also cost reasons!

This is what I would like to happen If a host goes down:

Email to be sent out on the 3rd failed check to the host (So 1st alert is sent out after 3 minutes of the host being down.)

Then……

I want to be alerted via email every 5 minutes for 25 minutes. Then no more email until the host recovers.

But……

I only want an SMS to be sent out on Notification Number 3. No SMS to be sent apart from host recovered.

Code:

Notification No.................Time Host Down...................Notification Method
.........1................................3 min.....................................Email............
.........2................................8 min.....................................Email............
.........3...............................13 min....................................Email, SMS..
.........4...............................18 min....................................Email............
.........5...............................23 min....................................Email............
.........6...............................28 min....................................Email............
.........RECOVER.....................?????.....................................Email, SMS..

Basically half of the hosts i am monitoring are in a data centre hooked up to a leased line fibre link to my office where my Nagios box is.
If the VPN goes down or our firewall has a spaz attack i dont want my phone thats hooked up to the ubuntu box sending out 100 odd texts per notification (50 odd hosts and 2 admins to notify)

Is this possible?

Thanks in advance

---------- Post updated at 12:46 PM ---------- Previous update was at 10:29 AM ----------

Ok so would this work?

I only deal with host groups - i have no service groups set up.

Code:

define hostescalation{
host_name.....................................Test Switch
first_notification.............................1
last_notification.............................6
notification_interval.......................5
contact_groups.............................admin email
escalation_options........................d,r

define hostescalation{
host_name.....................................Test Switch
first_notification.............................3
last_notification.............................7
notification_interval.......................0
contact_groups.............................admin sms
escalation_options........................d,r

Will this send out an email for N1,2,4,5,6 and an SMS for N3 only, then stop after the 6th notification due to the notification_interval.......................0 setting?

---------- Post updated at 02:27 PM ---------- Previous update was at 12:46 PM ----------

I have managed to get it working 95% with the following:

Code:

  	define hostescalation{
	host_name.....................................Test Switch
	first_notification.............................1
	last_notification.............................5
	notification_interval.......................5
	contact_groups.............................admin email
	escalation_options........................d,r
	}
  	
	define hostescalation{
	host_name.....................................Test Switch
	first_notification.............................3
	last_notification.............................3
	notification_interval.......................5
	contact_groups.............................admin sms
	escalation_options........................d,r
  	}
  	define hostescalation{
	host_name.....................................Test Switch
	first_notification.............................6
	last_notification.............................0
	notification_interval.......................0
	contact_groups.............................admin email
	escalation_options........................d,r
  	}

I get emails for N1-6 and also a text for N3.
Also get a recovery email but no recovery text.
Is this because i told it not to text me again after N3?

Cheers

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Last edited by zaxxon; 11-15-2011 at 10:29 AM.. Reason: code tags, see PM

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