Customized macros not working for contacts

[Paul Dubuc]

Is is feasible to define the macro in a service template definition that your 
other service definitions use to get the value for the command-line parameter?

Deborah Martin wrote:
> Andreas,
>
> It doesn't work if I define a customized macro in the contact definition
> and try to use it at all!
>
> That means as a macro or as an environment variable.
>
> If I move the customized macro to my service definition then both work.
>
> The docs say this is supported so I believe this should be fixed. My
> configuration "is in the real world" and therefore would be very useful. As
> it's for use with an event handler I can't believe that it will have that
> much of a performance impact as the only time when the event handler needs
> to send out results is on a critical alert and that is based on certain
> criteria being met.
>
> Having the macro defined in the contact definition instead of the service
> definition is the difference between updating 1 contacts.cfg file which
> contain 30 different contacts versus updating 100's of service definitions
> where there is around 10 services for every contact.
>
> Regards, Deborah
>
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Andreas Ericsson [mailto:ae at op5.se] Sent:
> 04 May 2012 12:25 To: Deborah Martin Cc: Nagios Developers List Subject:
> Re: [Nagios-devel] Customized macros not working for contacts
>
> On 05/03/2012 04:58 PM, Deborah Martin wrote:
>> Thanks Andreas,
>>
>>>> Are environment macros are turned on and large_installation_tweaks
>>>> turned off? Otherwise, it's not supposed to work.
>> Yes for both settings
>>
>> I do see your point about a fix. It's a shame because setting this in the
>> contact definition would have made some event handlers easier to write.
>>
>> At the moment my event handler has to be customized per customer to get
>> the right email contacts but if I could define a customized macro in the
>> contact definition, I only need use that in my event handler script and
>> then I don't need to worry about a different event handler per customer
>> making it as generic as possible. Things like warning and critical
>> thresholds are parsed based on customer requirements rather than
>> hardcoded so I was hoping I could do that with contacts.
>>
>> Is there a different way of achieving this ?
>>
>
> Use the macro as a command-line parameter from Nagios' config. From what I
> read in your original mail, that seemed to work well, no?
>


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