Introduction

In this article, I will show you how I used Gotify to provide a very reliable information service for my IT team.

The messages are sent from our Icinga2 instance to the Gotify service. We are using the iGotify App on our mobile phones.


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Whats needed?

  1. Icinga2 Mo...

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Background

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What happened

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Introduction

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