Question: How do I reduce the size of the alerts that nagios sends?

[Scott Sugar]

Yes, all you need to do is go into your commands.cfg file and alter your notify-by-email command to look something like this:
 
define command{
        command_name    notify-by-email
        command_line    /usr/bin/printf "%b" "Host: $HOSTNAME$\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nService: $SERVICEDESC$" | /bin/mail -s "$NOTIFICATIONTYPE$" $CONTACTEMAIL$
        }
 
and your host-notify-by-email command to look like this:
 
define command{
        command_name    host-notify-by-email
        command_line    /usr/bin/printf "%b" "Host: $HOSTNAME$\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nState: $HOSTSTATE$" | /bin/mail -s "$NOTIFICATIONTYPE$" $CONTACTEMAIL$
        }


 

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From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net on behalf of Dan Knoblauch
Sent: Wed 8/3/2005 4:45 PM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] Question: How do I reduce the size of the alerts that nagios sends?




Hello all. I use my cellular phone to receive alerts from my nagios host. The problem is that the cell phone has a limited amount of buffer space for received messages so whenever I get a page from nagios it gets split into 2 or more messages. Is it possible to reduce the content of the message to read something like:

Subject: Problem
Host: mx.mydomain.com
IP: 111.111.111.111
Service: SMTP

Thanks in advance.
Dan.


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