Bulk notification for SIGNL4 plugin

General
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Trying to set up bulk notification for SIGNL4 plugin fails with error message:

The notification script SIGNL4 Alerting does not allow bulking.

I have tested this briefly with other plugins, none of which worked.

Does bulking in general only work with the E-Mail channel? Or is it indeed some missing functionality in the specific plugin (in my case SIGNL4).
I have not found any specifics in the documentation: Notifications - via Email, SMS, ticket system and more

Thanks for any insights on this matter.

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Allowing bulk is a setting that each notification plugin has to make, as it means building a new summary and/or description of the notification summary, which might not always make sense.

@rons4 you’re probably the best to explain SIGNL4’s stance on bulk notifications :)?

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Thanks for your swift reply @gstolz
I suspected missing features in the SIGNL4 plugin.

I have contacted the support team from SIGNL4 about this issue and the possibility of adding such a feature.

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Thanks everybody for pointing this out. Right now, it seems most of the notification channels (email is an exception here) do not support bulking. Being at the Checkmk Conference 10 right now, I had the chance to explore this a bit more in detail (thanks also go to @gstolz).
We will look into this and hopefully support bulk notifications with for the SIGNL4 notification channel.
Also, SIGNL4 itself supports flood protection which might be helpful as well.

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Hi,
i had the same problem with bulking.
Bulking is hardcoded but i did not found a solution to override this in a safe way.

Infos:

Because the module Names are hardcoded in the notify.py

                split_contexts = (
                    plugin_name not in ["", "mail", "asciimail", "slack"] or
                    # params can be a list (e.g. for custom notificatios)
                    params.get("disable_multiplexing") or bulk)
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