Custom notification commands...old question with new twist...

[Steve Gilbert]

I've got a variation on a question that has been asked here several
times before.  Please bear with me...

I want to modify my notification messages to include such things as
physical location, serial number, user contact list, vendor contract
numbers, etc.

This is simple to do via changing the misccommands.cfg file...lots of
folks seem to be just having it grep for the appropriate info from a
flat file or database or whatever.  Simple enough.

Here's where I'd like to do it a little differently...and I'm not sure
if this is possible or not.  I'd really like to have all this info come
straight from my hosts.cfg file somehow.  Is it possible to add in
another directive to a hosts definition?  I've played around with just
trying to use the alias directive to hold all this info, but it's pretty
ugly.  I'd love to have some sort of "notes" directive in here that
would populate a macro...preferably being able to hold multiple lines of
info.  It would just be nice to store all this info in one place and not
have to maintain a hosts.cfg and a separate notes file.  Would this
require a modification to the core Nagios code?

Thanks!

Steve Gilbert
Unix Systems Administrator
sgilbert at nvidia.com


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