RE: Feature Request "hidden" attribute

Jorge Adrian Salaices <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.netsaint.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Whhoops sorry .. I did not mean to do that ... 
I had my head somewhere else this morning .. 
Credit where credit is due .. 
Sooo sooorry ... 

Adrian Salaices.


On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 14:39, Bishop, Dean wrote:
> 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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