Sometimes it may be necessary to create and run custom notification methods depending on your environment and requirements in accordance with custom SLA’s, contracts, etc. This slideshare shows you how to configure them in Opsview.

2. Creating and Using Custom Notification
Methods in Opsview
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3. Introduction
Sometimes it may be necessary to create and run custom
notification methods depending on your environment and
requirements in accordance with custom SLA’s, contracts, etc.
In Opsview this is very simple to setup.
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4. Configuration
• Firstly, the directory location for the notification scripts is
located at /usr/local/nagios/libexec/notifications.
• In here you will see the scripts already on Opsview, plus any
other additional notifications already created:
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5. Configuration
• In this example, we are going to be using “notify_by_email” as
our script.
• After logging into the Opsview web interface, we will now
need to proceed to create the new notification first are
foremost.
• To do this, we will need to navigate to “SETTINGS >
NOTIFICATION METHODS”.
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6. Configuration
• In the top corner, there will be the “addition” sign. Click this to
load the new “New notification method” window. As per the
image below, we will need to populate this box with the
appropriate information:
• As you can see, the name of the module we created should be
added to the “command” field, as this is the script that will be
called when the notification method is engaged. Click “submit
changes”, and our new notification method “Opsview Demo
Notification” is now created.
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7. Configuration
• Now we need to add this notification to a contact, so that the
contact will be notified when the parameters for the
notification to be initiated, have been satisfied. To do this, we
need to navigate to “Settings > Contacts” and click on the
contact we wish to modify, in this case “smarsh”.
• Once on the contact profile, click the button “Submit and edit
notification profiles” – make sure that the password boxes
are both empty, as some browsers may auto populate one of
these fields.
• Once loaded, we can now edit which notifications are
attached to that contact, and as we need to, add our own
custom notification.
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8. Configuration
• As you can see, we have a check box under the “Notify by..”
section, and in this section we can see our new notification
“Opsview Demo Notification”. Simply toggle this box, and our
new notification is added to this user. This can be done for all
applicable users. We can also configure further information
on this page, such as for which host groups do we want this
notification to be sent for – in this case, only the “premium,
monitoring servers and ESX servers”.
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9. Configuration
• We can also configure when we want this notification to be
called, and for what alerts. We may only want to know when a
critical alert happens or when a box is down, not when a
service is flapping (i.e. an engineer on call over night).
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10. Configuration
• So as before, we have configured it only to alert us on
warning/critical alerts on services, and for only on hosts which
are down or unreachable. And the notification will only be
engaged during “nonworkhours”, as specified in “SETTINGS >
TIME PERIODS” (so the notification will only do the action
during 6pm-8am, for example).
• Finally, submit the changes and go to “SETTINGS > APPLY
CHANGES” to apply our new notification to our user(s).
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