Down time in UP messages?

[Jedrzej Jajor]

Hi Hugo,
> Hi,
>
> Did someone manage to get the down time in UP messages for hosts and/or 
> services?
>
> I have been tampering a little bit with it but could not get any 
> reliable/workable results. But I may havebeen missing out something rather 
> obvious.
>
> I tried a thing like:
>
> #       command_line    /usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios 
> *****\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\n\nService: 
> $SERVICEDESC$\nHost: $HOSTALIAS$\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nState: 
> $SERVICESTATE$\n\nDate/Time: $LONGDATETIME$\n\nAdditional 
> Info:\n\n$SERVICEOUTPUT$" | /bin/mail -s "** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ alert - 
> $HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ is $SERVICESTATE$ **" $CONTACTEMAIL$
>          command_line    /usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios 
> *****\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\n\nService: 
> $SERVICEDESC$\nHost: $HOSTALIAS$\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nState: 
> $SERVICESTATE$\nDuration: $SERVICEDURATION$\n\nDate/Time: 
> $LONGDATETIME$\n\nAdditional Info:\n\n$SERVICEOUTPUT$" | /bin/mail -s "** 
> $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ alert - $HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ is $SERVICESTATE$ **" 
> $CONTACTEMAIL$
>
> But it tells me the duration of the uptime. (Which is usually around 1 
> second.)
>   

I'd try to play with $LASTHOSTUP$ and $LASTSERVICEOK$ macros.
Substracting these values from current date in $TIMET$ should give
approximate host/service downtime in seconds. I was planning on trying
that soon in my own Nagios, but let me know if you find out whether it
works.

Jedrzej.
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