Nagios (re-)send notification for service in OK state

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Quite simple question: How could I set re-sending notifications in Nagios for service which doesn't change its state?

I want to use it for fake sms. Service is allways OK (the whole script content is exit 0 ) and I want every day notification about it.

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I don't think this is possible within any Nagios Object. Nagios goes to great lengths to track state change and not much more.

What you can do is make a custom service that triggers a notification every day.

All in all though it sounds pretty useless. If you haven't got a notification for a changing state, it's safe to assume that your service is in its initial state.

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How to make nagios send me brief and informative alerts

Nagios can be configured to send notifications by various ways and in various formats. If you need to personalize that please refer to your commands.cfg.
This is an example to show you how to receive a short notification by sms using gnokii:


define command{
        command_name    notify-host-by-sms
        command_line    /usr/bin/printf "%.120s" "$HOSTALIAS$ is $HOSTSTATE$" |/usr/local/bin/gnokii --sendsms $CONTACTPAGER$ -r
        }

define command{
        command_name    notify-service-by-sms
        command_line    /usr/bin/printf "%.120s" "$HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ is $SERVICESTATE$" | /usr/local/bin/gnokii --sendsms $CONTACTPAGER$ -r
        }

The output is like this "hostname is up"

Nagios monitoring with SMS alerts via Clickatell

Run the /usr/bin/send_sms from command line to make sure the Clickatell works.
Take a look at nagios.log or /var/log/messages to see you have nagios: SERVICE NOTIFICATION whenever you got "string was not found" on the Web UI.

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