Flagging alerts and notifications as urgent

[Chris Smith]

I needed a way to send alerts from Nagios (incidentally, I am on 2.0b4) but 
have them flagged at Urgent. Granted, the RFC surrounding email doesn't allow 
for this, but my staff utilize MS Outlook 2k3 and Treo 650 phones, so, I wanted 
to flag those emails differently.

With some hacking and perl, here is what I have come up with. Thought that I 
would share it with you.

Here is the script file that we placed in /usr/local/bin:
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	#!/usr/bin/perl

	my $line;

	        print "From: \"Nagios Alert\" <daemon>\n";
	        print "To: @ARGV[0]\n";
	        print "Subject: @ARGV[1]\n";
	        print "Content-Type: text/plain\n";
	        print "X-Priority: 1\n";
	        print "X-MSMail-Priority: High\n";
	        print "\n";

	        while (<STDIN>) {
	                $line = $_;
	                print "$line";
	        }
	        print ".\n";
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And, we changed the alerting in the misccommands.cfg and command.cfg files:
(from misccommand.cfg)
	# 'notify-by-email' command definition
	define command{
	        command_name    notify-by-email
	        command_line    /usr/bin/printf "%b" "Note: DO NOT REPLY TO 
THIS EMAIL\n\n$NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\nThe service $SERVICEDESC$ on host $HOSTALIAS$ 
and at address $HOSTADDRESS$ is in a state of $SERVICESTATE$.\n\nThe output 
from the service check:$OUTPUT$\n\nService URL: http://<somehost>/nagios/cgi-
bin/extinfo.cgi?type=1&host=$HOSTNAME$\n\n(Note: This link will take you to the 
service problem and not show the sidebar.)\n\nNagios homepage: 
http://<somehost>/nagios/" | /usr/local/bin/urgent $CONTACTEMAIL$ "** 
$NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ alert - $HOSTNAME$ is $HOSTSTATE$ **" | /usr/sbin/sendmail -t
	        }

(from command.cfg)
	# Service notification command - send email with problem summary

	command[notify-by-email]=/usr/bin/printf "Note: DO NOT REPLY TO THIS 
EMAIL\n\nThe servicestate \"$SERVICESTATE$\" for $HOSTALIAS$ and $SERVICEDESC$ 
located at IP $HOSTADDRESS$ is in a $HOSTSTATE$ state.\n\nThe output from the 
host check: $OUTPUT$\n\nHost URL:\"http://<somehost>/nagios/cgi-bin/extinfo.cgi?
type=2&host=$HOSTNAME$\"\n(Note: This link will take you to the host in 
question and not show the sidebar.)\n\nNagios homepage: 
http://<somehost>/nagios/" | /usr/local/bin/urgent $CONTACTEMAIL$ "$HOSTALIAS$ 
is in a $HOSTSTATE$ state"  | /usr/sbin/sendmail -t



Christopher M. Smith
I.T. Manager
RadioFrame Networks




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