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Ack-Back for Nagios đź”—

Enabling Ack-Back is an option for Nagios/Icinga (explained below) along with Zabbix integration for Splunk On-Call. In this topic, Nagios and Icinga can be used interchangeably.

Ack-Back is an optional feature that informs your Nagios instance when someone acknowledges its alerts in Splunk On-Call. Note that you must be using the Nagios integration to enable this feature.

Ack-Back is implemented as a Nagios service called “VictorOps Command Poll”. It retrieves acknowledgement commands from Splunk On-Call for executing locally to Nagios. Enabling Ack-Back is a matter of enabling active checks of the Splunk On-Call Command Poll service.

Find the service definition in the victorops.cfg file:

define service active_checks_enabled   0 use    VictorOps_Service service_description    VictorOps Command Poll check_command    check_victorops_cmds ...

Set the value of the active_checks_enabled setting to 1 and reload Nagios.

Note: in some cases GCI/Admin access for the Splunk On-Call user is required for ack-back to function properly.

This page was last updated on Jul 02, 2024.