event handler macros

[Andreas Ericsson]

Roy Kidder wrote:
> I'm writing a perl script that will be called as an event handler for a
> down/hard host. The idea behind the script is to generate some simple
> debugging output and email it to the contact group for the down host.
> 


You're aware that this is what the contact object and such are for, right?


> The problem is that the contact group macro ($CONTACTEMAIL$) isn't
> available to event handlers.
> 
> Does anyone have a suggestion on how I might determine the contact email
> for a host in such a case?
> 

You can do it in a number of obscure and ridiculous ways, all of which 
involve external files or weird name-standards.

The easiest is probably to set your script as notification command for a 
contact. This will nicely bypass all the troubles (and be sane at the 
same time).

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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
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