Specifying which states to be notified about
In this recipe, we'll learn how to refine which notifications are sent by a host or service, and which notifications should be received by a particular contact. We'll do this by changing both the notification types that hosts and services should generate, and to complement that, the notification types that a contact should be configured to receive.
Getting ready
You should have a Nagios Core 3.0 or newer server, with at least one host configured already. We'll use the example of sparta.naginet
, a host defined in its own file, which we'll configure to send only DOWN
and RECOVERY
notifications, ignoring other notifications such as WARNING
and UNKNOWN
. It will send notifications to an existing contact called john
; we'll ensure that this contact is configured to receive those notifications.
How to do it...
We can configure the notification types for our host as follows:
Change to the
objects
configuration directory for Nagios Core. The default is/usr...