[olug] OT Need Open Source Notification Tool

Curtis LaMasters curtislamasters at gmail.com
Tue Feb 17 15:44:20 UTC 2009


There are plugins for nagios to open tickets in RT.  Maybe that mashup would
work?  I would second Nagios though a simple bash script/vb script
(depending on platform) could do the same thing.

Curtis


On 2/17/09, Dave Weis <djweis at internetsolver.com> wrote:
>
>
> I'm not sure if this would fit Nagios or RT better, it seems to be in
> between them.
>
> Kevin wrote:
> > How about Nagios? http://www.nagios.org. Google their name and their
> > subtitle is: "Nagios is an enterprise-class monitoring solutions for
> > hosts, services, and networks released under an Open Source license."
> > Not sure what plugin you'll use for checking for the existence of a
> > file, or if you'll have to write your own, but I'd be surprised if it
> > doesn't exist already. We use it for our customer environments to
> > monitor the status of remote sites, hosts, and services on those
> > hosts.
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 07:37, Todd Christopher Hamilton
> > <netarttodd at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> OT Need Open Source Notification Tool
> >>
> >> Guys I am looking for an opensource solution. I could use your advise.
> >>
> >> I am looking for a ticket escalation tool that performs a series of
> >> notification steps based on a predetermined protocol.  For example:
> >> Job A performs a task where the end result is the existence of a file.
> >>  The inspection tool checks for the existence of that file at a
> >> predetermined time.  If the file is not there then send a page/email
> >> to the on-call tech.  If the on call tech does not "respond" to the
> >> alert within a predetermined amount of time, the tool will page the
> >> manager, so on and so forth.  Any suggestions?
> >>
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