Re: Nagios Integration

[Christian Hopp]

On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Jan-Henrik Haukeland wrote:

> Russell Adams <address@hidden> writes:


(...)

> > That being said, all I'd like to do is allow more flexible alerts,
> > based on running an artibrary command instead of using just
> > email. That one feature alone would be simply awesome.
> >
> > This way I could use paging directly like so:
> >
> > alert `/usr/bin/snpp -m "Monit: $EVENT for $PROGRAM on $HOST" rladams`
> >
> > or I would have the option of using any other program to pass on the
> > data as needed. Spawn, exec, launch or whatever the program specified,
> > and terminal the child process if it fails to exit in less than 90 seconds.
>
> Actually we have discussed this idea before also, it's not a bad idea
> and I'm not sure why we didn't implement it. Anyone remember?

The problem of this might be that we reduce the reliability of monit
by depending on "other programs". ==> What should monit do if this
mechanism fails?

On the other hand I would say right now...  why not having this facility
and we don't need snmp integration... because external programs could
send the traps, too.

Christian

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