Add Contact¶

All of the contacts should be grouped under the following contact groups:

• warning-group - receives notification for warning, unknown, critical, recovery, flapping, scheduled downtime
• critical-group - receives notification for unknown, critical, recovery, flapping, scheduled downtime

1. login to Nagios server using nagios user
2. edit /usr/local/nagios/etc/ecosway/contacts/contacts.cfg
   

   nagios$ vi /usr/local/nagios/etc/ecosway/contacts/contacts.cfg
   

• Template:
  

  define contact{
          contact_name                    an unique contact name
          use                             either warning-contact or critical-contact
          alias                           put the description here
          email                           put the email here
          pager                           put the mobile no. here
          address1                        put the Google Talk ID here
          }
  

• Example:
  

  define contact{
          contact_name                    warning-user
          use                             warning-contact
          alias                           Test User for Warning Notification
          email                           ecosway.nagios.warning@gmail.com
          pager                           +601111111111
          address1                        ecosway.nagios.warning
          }
  

  
  

  define contact{
          contact_name                    critical-user
          use                             critical-contact
          alias                           Test User for Critical Notification
          email                           ecosway.nagios.critical@gmail.com
          pager                           +6022222222222222
          address1                        ecosway.nagios.critical
          }
  

1. assign the newly created user to the specified group by editing
   

   nagios$ vi /usr/local/nagios/etc/ecosway/contacts/contact_groups.cfg
   

• Template:
  

  define contactgroup{
          contactgroup_name               warning-group
          alias                           Warning Group
          members                         put the newly created user's contact name here
          }
  
  define contactgroup{
          contactgroup_name               critical-group
          alias                           Critical Group
          members                         put the newly created user's contact name here
          }
  

• Example:
  

  define contactgroup{
          contactgroup_name               warning-group
          alias                           Warning Group
          members                         warning-user
          }
  
  define contactgroup{
          contactgroup_name               critical-group
          alias                           Critical Group
          members                         critical-user
          }