configure additional contacts in Nagios

[Artem Ervits <ar...@nyp.org>]

Hello,

I'm trying to add additional contacts to Nagios and I can't seem to find a way to do so. Is that supported?

Artem Ervits
New York Presbyterian


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Re: configure additional contacts in Nagios

[Yusaku Sako <yu...@hortonworks.com>]

This isn't directly supported via the Ambari Web UI, but you can modify the
following template on the Ambari Server host:
/var/lib/ambari-server/resources/stacks/HDP/2.0.6/services/NAGIOS
/package/templates/contacts.cfg.j2

1) Add customized contact
It should look something like:

define contact {
        contact_name    mycontact                                        ;
Short name of user
        use             generic-contact
        ; Inherit default values from generic-contact template (defined
above)
        alias           Nagios Admin
         ; Full name of user
        email          myemail@gmail.com      ; <--- CHANGE THIS TO YOUR
EMAIL ADDRESS
}

define contactgroup {
        contactgroup_name       admins
        alias                   Nagios Administrators
        members                 nagiosadmin,sys_logger,mycontact  <-- ADD
NEWLY DEFINED CONTACT HERE
}

2) Restart ambari-server and restart Nagios from Ambari Web
3) Verify that /etc/nagios/objects/contacts.cfg on the Nagios Server host
has the updated info.

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objectdefinitions.html for more info
on configuring contacts.

BTW, upcoming Ambari 2.0 will introduce a flexible alerting system,
including multiple notification targets and a fine-grained control of who
receives what type of alerts for which severities, etc (this is partially
working in trunk, though a lot of it is still WIP).

Thanks,
Yusaku


On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 7:50 AM, Artem Ervits <ar...@nyp.org> wrote:

>  Hello,
>
>
>
> I’m trying to add additional contacts to Nagios and I can’t seem to find a
> way to do so. Is that supported?
>
>
>
> Artem Ervits
>
> New York Presbyterian
>
>
>
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> recipient, and may contain information that is confidential or privileged.
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