Using macros in notification commands

[Subhendu Ghosh]

On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Colby, James wrote:

> Hello - 
> 
> I was wondering if it is possible to use macro's in a notification
> command.  I am beginning in suspect that it is not after trying to set
> one up.  What I am trying to do is to create a generic command that will
> send a winpop notification when a service/host is in trouble.  I do not
> want to have to create a separate win popup notification command for
> each of my contacts, so I would like to be able to pass the machine name
> to my notification command.  Here is what I have tried so far:
> 
> Misccommands.cfg:
> 	define command{
>         command_name    host-notify-by-winpopup
>         command_line    /usr/bin/printf "%b" "Host '$HOSTALIAS$' is
> $HOSTSTATE$, Info: $OUTPUT$, Time: $DATETIME$" |
> /usr/local/samba/bin/smbclient -M $ARG1$
>         }
> 
> Contacts.cfg:
> 	define contact{
>         contact_name                    jcolby
>         alias                           jcolby
>         service_notification_period     24x7
>         host_notification_period        24x7
>         service_notification_options    w,u,c,r
>         host_notification_options       d,u,r
>         service_notification_commands   
> 		service-notify-by-email,service-notify-by-epager
>         host_notification_commands      
> 		host-notify-by-email, host-notify-by-winpopup!jcolby-xp
>         email                           <jcolby at enterasys.com>        
>         }
> 
> When I check my config with nagios -v nagios.cfg it reports an error
> that notification command host-notify-by-winpopup!jcolby-xp does not
> exist.  I am assuming that means that I cannot use the macros in my
> misccomands.cfg file the same way that I can use them in the
> checkcommands.cfg file.  Is that correct, or am I just doing something
> wrong.
> 
> Thank you very much.
> James
> 

You cannot specify an argument in the contact definition

ie "host-notify-by-winpopup!jcolby-xp" is treated as a command definition 
not a command definition with an argument...


You can define the "host-notify-by-winpopup" to send the popoup to the 
contactalias if you follow a convention of having the contact alias point 
to the hostname they are logged onto.

Check "http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/macros.html" to see what 
macro are available.

-- 

-sg



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