Alert messages as files?

[John R. Daily]

I'm in the early stages of evaluating Nagios 2.0 for broader use in  
our environment, and one of the negative aspects for me is the  
current approach for defining alert messages.  I would much rather  
have them defined individually outside the configuration files, but  
still (obviously) allowed to reference macros.

It occurred to me that one relatively straightforward solution would  
be to define an external helper that could parse alert files, looking  
for macro invocations and replacing the values with data from the  
NAGIOS_ environment variables.

Rather than reinvent the wheel: are there any such tools floating  
around in the Nagios ecosystem?

Alternatively, is anyone aware of a good reason to not take this  
approach?

Thanks.


John R. Daily
Apparatus, Inc.
912 N. Delaware St.
Indianapolis, IN 46202
(317) 254-8488 Ext. 320
jdaily at apparatus.net




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