notify-by-pager / check_disk problem

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Andrew Xenides
> Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 11:30 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] notify-by-pager / check_disk problem
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 
> 
> Im using nagios (duh) to send alerts via sms when my servers disks get
> full, my problem is that the output from the check_disk command is
greater
> than the maximum allowed characters (160) hence my $OUTPUT$ variable
is
> over 160 chars hence the message being sent to the sms gateway is way
over
> 160 chars.
> 
> 
> 
> Is there anyway to manipulate this $OUTPUT$ before sending it to the
> gateway?

Sure, but not within Nagios. Since your notification command can be any
script you want, write a short one that takes the appropriate macros on
the command line, manipulate them any way you want then call your sms
notification program with the munged information.

--
Marc 


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