How to enable sound alerts only when a host is down?

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Hi everyone,

I’ve configured Checkmk with my hosts and services. All my hosts are currently up, but some services are in a critical state. However, I would like to receive sound alerts only when a host goes down.

Right now, the sound notifications keep going off all the time due to critical services, which is overwhelming and ineffective.

How can I configure Checkmk to trigger sound alerts only for host down events?

Thanks in advance for your help!

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I don’t know how to do that, it seems like there’s only an off/on option in raw I’m running.

Thought of a workaround.
In Nagvis you can set mp3 files for certain states.

  • make a view in Nagvis with all of your hosts you want an alert from
  • upload silent mp3 files in the states you don’t want
  • turn on sound in Nagvis

Maybe a similar approach is also possible in Checkmk itself, but haven’t investigated that.

EDIT:
A quick look shows that Checkmk wav files can be found in /omd/sites/[site name]/share/check_mk/web/htdocs/sounds/.
So maybe if you put silent wav files for unwanted states in /omd/sites/[site name]/local/share/check_mk/web/htdocs/sounds/ it hopefully overrides those system resources.

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