RE: Feature Request "hidden" attribute

whoops.. As much as i would love to take credit for this most excellent
product, it is Ethan Galstad.

i echo the Kudos to Ethan.  Well done.

to answer your question, the only answer i can think of is to change the
hostgroup and service contact_groups so that they don't include the contacts
you want _not_ to see the "down" devices.

hope that's not too muddy.

later,
dean

-----Original Message-----
From: Jorge Adrian Salaices [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 1:44 PM
To: Bishop, Dean
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Feature Request "hidden" attribute


Good Morning/Afternoon to all ...

I have been using Nagios since it forked from Netsaint and I am really
happy with all of its features .. This is one of the best pieces of
software I have ever come to work with....Lots of Kudos for you Dean.

I am currently checking over 100 Devices monitoring 1030 Services like 
"Router CPU Usage","hard disk utilization on HP-UX Linux and WIndows NT"
,"firewall hits per minute","Email virus hits per minute" even "Changes
on RedHat site for new packages" .. You name it I am checking .. 
This is the coolest package ... 

One Thing I have noticed is that I have the need for a server/device NOT
to show up at all while is in transition to being ok. thus a status of
"hidden" may be a great thing ... 

A server sometimes may be down for weeks at a time and I don't want it
to be on the way showing up all "critical". Even though it has been set
to not notify/not check etc ... 

Is that something that could be implemented in Nagios ? Is that a
feature that anybody Other than me Could Use ?? 
Your Input or other Ideas on how to accomplish this will be greatly
appreciated .  


Adrian Salaices. 
Applications Manager/DBA 
Dallas Airmotive.







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