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

[Steve Gilbert]

Thanks Andreas, and everyone else who's replied to this.

I think I might try the suggestion from Lynne Lawrence regarding using
comments to store the data I want.  Otherwise, the tried and true method
of just using a separate file will do. 


Steve Gilbert
Unix Systems Administrator
sgilbert at nvidia.com

-----Original Message-----
From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Andreas
Ericsson
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 4:56 AM
To: Steve Gilbert
Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Custom notification commands...old question
with new twist...

Steve Gilbert wrote:
> 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?

Yes, but it requires a bit of meddling with the C-code. Nagios is a
monitoring tool, not an inventory system.

>  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...

I'm working on adding a $HOSTNOTESURL$ macro to Nagios 2.0 (from
hostextinfo). That way you can connect it to whatever web-based system
you want.

> preferably being able to hold multiple lines of info.

This would require rather vast changes. Everything in Nagios is based on
'one-line' assumptions. Each variable have only one value, and each
value needs to be on one line only. I'm sure this could be changed
somehow, but that requires a bit of fiddling.

> 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.

Like I said before. Nagios is not an inventory system.

> Would this require a modification to the core Nagios code?
> 

Yes.

> Thanks!
> 

You're welcome.

-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Lead Developer


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