Funny thing… I’m sitting in my office trying to get a rather irritating Dell printer back online with the print server, when out of the blue I started getting emails from my Nagios server.
Subject: ** PROBLEM alert – websensor/Illumination is CRITICAL **
***** Nagios 2.9 *****
Notification Type: PROBLEM
Service: Illumination
Host: websensor
Address: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
State: CRITICAL
Date/Time: Fri Sept 21 09:11:45 EDT 2007
Additional Info:
CRITICAL ( 1 or 700 ) Illumination: 0.4
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Apparently, the websensor got scared of the dark and knew we were here and wanted to be comforted. 😉
I went into the server room and turned on the light and in thanks it sent me the following email:
Subject: ** RECOVERY alert – websensor/Illumination is OK **
***** Nagios 2.9 *****
Notification Type: RECOVERY
Service: Illumination
Host: websensor
Address: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
State: OK
Date/Time: Fri Sept 21 09:41:45 EDT 2007
Additional Info:
OK Illumination: 42.7
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I’m glad to know it now feels safe. 😀
You may think that this is just because of a rule that once it hits a certain level of illumination it sends out an email. Guess what, the websensor sends data to Nagios 24×7 and alerts are set to send all the time as well. I’ve only gotten illumination warnings while someone is in the building and can turn on the light. Though once a long time ago on a Sunday when there was a big thunderstorm I do remember getting a few. Just goes to show, hardware gets scared too. 😉