Acknowledge emails

[Thibault Genessay]

Hello

Jason Gauthier wrote:

>   I've been using nagios for quite a while.  I've customized some of my
>notifications to fit better on our pagers.  Somehow, somewhere, sometime
>acknowledgement emails stopped sending the acknowledgemnt comment with
>it.    I cannot figure out which place it is I need to put this back in.
>(Maybe this was a change during a nagios upgrade even).  I'm just not
>certain.  
>  
>
I think I know what you are talking about. I have written my own 
notification script that is called the following way:
[...]/mailer.py [...] -a $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$  -s $SERVICESTATE$ [...]

I had discovered (I was using 2.0b2 in the first place) that sometimes 
my script received no value for its -a argument so I had written 
somewhere in the script the following quick fix:

    # Nagios has a feature/bug that makes it send mails without the 
PROBLEM or RECOVERY action
    # flag. Hence the -a option comes with no argument, which 
contradicts the check done below.
    if parameters['-a'] is not None and len(parameters['-a'])==0 and 
parameters['-s'] is not None and len(parameters['-s']):
        if parameters['-s'][0] in ('CRITICAL','WARNING','DOWN'):
            parameters['-a'].append('PROBLEM')
            logfile.write('Guessing the -a PROBLEM argument \n')
        elif parameters['-s'][0] in ('OK','UP'):
            parameters['-a'].append('RECOVERY')
            logfile.write('Guessing the -a RECOVERY argument \n')

I have never reviewed this code since I have upgraded to beta3 then 
beta4 but it has always worked so far. I guess we should report this to 
nagios-devel one day :)

-- 
Thibault GENESSAY
ALIADIS
www.aliadis.fr
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Fax   04 72 13 90 40 



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