event handler not working

[Billy Liang]

Hello,

I am a newbie to the Nagios community. I developed an event handler for 
Nagios, but somehow it doesn't seem to be working.  Here's the command 
definition for the event handler:

define command {
        command_name    fix_taosvcs
        command_line    /opt/nagios/libexec/wpj/tao_event_handler 
$SERVICESTATE$ $SERVICESTATETYPE$ $SERVICEATTEMPT$ $SERVICEOUTPUT$ 
2>/dev/null
        }

If I ran the program separately such as the following, it works fine:
/opt/nagios/libexec/wpj/tao_event_handle CRITICAL HARD 4 "CRITICAL Level 0 - 
0 warning[] - 1 critical[PbxCmdMgr/0]"
I tried running the program as nagios user, and it works. So I don't think 
it's permission problem. When I looked at the nagios log, it seems to have 
called the event handler.  Following is the log:

SERVICE ALERT: linux05;CHKTAO;CRITICAL;HARD;4;CRITICAL: Level 2 - 0 
warning[] 1 critical[PbxCmdMgr/0]
[1134130290] SERVICE EVENT HANDLER: 
linux05;CHKTAO;CRITICAL;HARD;4;fix_taosvcs

However when the program run under Nagios as event handler, it doesn't do 
anything. It's very perplexing.  I am running Nagios 2.0b3, I am wondering 
if this version is too old for some of the macro that I used.  In order for 
the event handler to do anything meaningful, it needs to have access to the 
content of $SERVICEOUTPUT$.

Any advise on how to debug this problem will be greatly appreciated. Thank 
you.

Billy




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