“:::Implementing a Sound Notification for the Alarms on Nagios With Ubuntu 10.04Lts Server Edition:::”

In this how-to Nagios won’t repeat a sentence as the previously how-to, but using aplay it’ll play a sound file as a MP3. If in the previously how-to I did not explain how to install an audio system on Ubuntu 10.04Lts Server Edition the commands of using are

$: sudo apt-get install alsa alsa-base alsa-utils

after that we go to configure Nagios Core to use aplay as command-line audio file player for the ALSA sound card driver.

$: cd /usr/local/nagios/etc

$: sudo nano commands.cfg

adding the following lines

define command{

 command_name    play_siren

 command_line    /bin/bash /usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/play_siren.sh

 }

create a script to run the sound alarm

$: cd objects

$: sudo nano play_siren.sh

with those lines

#!/bin/bash

 /usr/bin/aplay -q /usr/share/nagios/etc/objects/alarm.wav

give to it the permissions and create a log

$: sudo chown nagios.nagios play_siren.sh

$: sudo chmod a+x play_siren.sh

modify the file contact.cfg to say to nagios of using the sound alarm

$: sudo nano templates.cfg:

modify the

define contact{

        name                            generic-contact       

        service_notification_period     24x7                  

        host_notification_period        24x7                   

        service_notification_options    w,u,c,r,f,s          

        host_notification_options       d,u,r,f,s             

        service_notification_commands   notify-service-by-email,play_siren     

        host_notification_commands      notify-host-by-email,play_siren

        register                        0                     

        }

Probado en CentOS 5.6 y funciona.

Fuente: Ideasnet