Nagios 3.03 sounds the horn even when no alerts

Nagios
1

Hi,
I finally got the sounds going by editing cgi/tac.c and cgi/status.c in the source folder and changing “application/wav” to “audio/wav”, Then I did a ./configure, make cgi, then copied the new tac.cgi and status.cgi files to /usr/local/nagios/sbin. Yaay.

Then I tested it on my status page - Aoooga! cool, it works. Then I acknowledged all errors to clear them all - and still Aooga! I keep getting alerts even though everything is acknowledged and I have “0 matching service entries Displayed”.

what gives? any ideas on how to make the sound only come when there’s an alert on the status.cgi page?

thanks

adam

2

:frowning: It must track by the “Status Totals” counts (top right) - in there, 1 critical Service/Host is still 1 critical Service/Host regardless of whether it is ack’d or not… less than useful, that… I guess a way around it would be to write a wrapper script that for the ‘Unhandled’ views of status.cgi that just spits out HTML as-is, except will suppress the AOOGA! if it sees a string match with “0 matching service entries Displayed”, but as solutions go, it isn’t the most elegant…

3

Thanks. You hit the nail on the head there. The problem was that our helpdesk didn’t want to acknowledge every service that was down when a host went down. Some of our servers have 10 services being monitored on them, so it would be a pain. So I filtered that out on the page the helpdesk has on the big monitor, but the horn sounds until everything is cleared.

So I did what you suggested. I just added the following to status.c in the part enclosed by /*added by adam */ between the printf and return

            printf("<BR><DIV CLASS='itemTotalsTitle'>%d Matching Service Entries Displayed</DIV>\n",total_entries);

/* added by adam /
if(total_entries!=0){
printf("<object type=“audio/wav” data="/nagios/media/critical.wav" height=“0” width=“0”>");
printf("<param name=“filename” value="/nagios/media/critical.wav">");
printf("<param name=“autostart” value=“1”>");
printf("<param name=“playcount” value=“1”>");
printf("");
}
/ done added by adam */
return;

Then I took out the sound definitions in the cgi.cfg. Now whenever they view a page and it says “0 matching service entries Displayed” they get no sound, but if the number isn’t 0 then they get a sound. This sucks for browsing nagios, but works for the helpdesk. For now, the helpdesk uses IE (get sound) and everyone else uses firefox (no sound)

adam