is_volatile parameter available as macro/environment variable

[Gerhard Lausser]

Hi Ethan and list,

when i was writing a notification script which opens calls in a trouble
ticket system, i wished the is_volatile parameter of a service would be
available as a macro.
The problem is, if a non-volatile service goes bad and a notification is
sent, i search the trouble ticket system, if there is already an open call
for this host/service combination and simply add the new event as a comment
to this existing call. Non-volatile services on the other side require a new
call each time Nagios sends out a notification because what caused the
critical statuses may even not be related to each other. To switch between
these behaviours, it would be nice to have the value of is_volatile
available in the notification script (my workaround is maxcheckattempts==1
&& thisattempt==1).
If this idea might be of interest, here ist the patch for nagios-3.0b1:
http://people.consol.de/~lausser/nagios/nagios-3.0b1.with-isvolatile-macro.p
atch

Greetings from Munich,
Gerhard


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