[olug] OT Need Open Source Notification Tool

Dave Weis djweis at internetsolver.com
Tue Feb 17 15:11:23 UTC 2009


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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