Customized macros not working for contacts

Deborah Martin Deborah.Martin at kognitio.com
Fri May 4 09:27:10 CEST 2012


No - that was a typo on my part. 

In both test cases there were two underscores. 


Regards,
Deborah 

-----Original Message-----
From: eponymous alias [mailto:eponymousalias at yahoo.com] 
Sent: 03 May 2012 17:01
To: Nagios Developers List
Cc: Deborah Martin
Subject: Re: [Nagios-devel] Customized macros not working for contacts

> I’m running nagios 3.3.1 on sles 10.

> I’ve defined a contact which uses a customized macro called
> _EMAILCONTACTID   However, when I try to reference this macro,
> from a script defined to run as part of a service check,  as an 
> environment variable $NAGIOS__CONTACTEMAILCONTACTID, is blank

> If I define a customized macro in the service definition, I can see 
> the contents of $NAGIOS_SERVICEEMAILCONTACTID.

Something is odd about the way you've written those names.
One has two underscores, the other has one.  Might that have something to do with the failure you see?


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