Severity and state mappings for Nagios and Nagios XI

Alert priority and resolution state mapping between Nagios and Incident Response.

Nagios and Nagios XI alert priority mapping

Nagios’s alert priority is based on two fields in the payload. The fields of interest are:
  • alert_state
  • alert_type
Nagios payload field Nagios payload value Incident Response alert priority value
alert_state OK

UP

 Clear/0
CRITICAL P1-Critical
WARNING P4-Low
UNKNOWN P5-INFORMATIONAL
DOWN P1-Critical
alert_type RECOVERY Clear/0

The default value for alert priority is P3-Moderate.

Nagios and Nagios XI resolution state mapping

The fields of interest are:
  • alert_state
  • alert_type
Nagios payload field Nagios payload value Incident Response alert resolution state value
alert_state OK

UP

 Closing
alert_type RECOVERY Closing
New
Note: If you require any other severity and state mappings, use the Generic webhook integration.