Missing $NOTIFICATIONUMBER$ macro

[Chris Waters]

It's complicated but you are going to have to find an external way to
keep track of your notifications for a given service and reference that
from your plugin.  You will probably need to change your notification
script to write to a db (or even a flat file) which can then be looked
at by your plugin.

My thought would be a simple db structure something like host_name,
service_name, notification_number.  Have your notifcation script update
the notification_number each time it sends a notification.  Your plugin
would have to reset this value to 0 if the service is ok.  Your plugin
will have to know how to pull this data from the db so you would not use
the $NOTIFICAITONNUMBER$ macro, your script will have it's own variable.

If you are using NDOUtils, you might be able to use exsiting data
instead of the additional db(not running it yet so I don't know for
sure).

This is a little oversimplified but I think this is how you could do it.

Chris Waters
Technology Services - Network Group
JELD-WEN, Inc.
Information Systems
cwaters at jeld-wen.com

-----Original Message-----
From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Jeff
Orr
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 2:25 PM
To: nagios-users
Subject: [Nagios-users] Missing $NOTIFICATIONUMBER$ macro

I have an odd problem with Nagios 2.9 and NRPE 2.8x. I'm wrapping
check_nrpe in a script to detect socket timeouts; the script returns a
WARNING instead of an UNKNOWN for the first two socket timeouts, and a
CRITICAL thereafter. I'm using $NOTIFICATIONNUMBER$ to pass in the
current notification count.

The problem is that $NOTIFICATIONNUMBER$ does not seem to be being
passed to me script. Here is what I have in checkcommands.cfg, in which
$NOTIFICATIONNUMBER$ gives a null value in my PERL script:

define command{
 command_name check__data_disk2
 command_line $USER1$/nrpe_wrapper -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -c check_disk3 -S
$SERVICESTATE$ -N $NOTIFICATIONNUMBER$ }

At first I thought it was a problem with my code, or with GetOpt. So I
changed it to this:
define command{
 command_name check__data_disk2
 command_line $USER1$/nrpe_wrapper -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -c check_disk3 -S
$SERVICESTATE$ -N 30$NOTIFICATIONNUMBER$ }

Now $notificationcount gets set to '30'. Any pointers on what I can try
to get the notification # into my plugin? Nagios was compiled with all
the standard options to ./configure.

Thanks,
Jeff Orr
Attributor Corporation



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