external notification commands

[Josh Yost]

Brian Loe wrote:
> On 1/23/07, Marc Powell <marc at ena.com> wrote:
>> If the notification is being called but you don't see what you expect in
>> your notification script, echo the command that nagios is running to a
>> file to see if it's what you think it's supposed to be --
>>
>> define command {
>>     command_name                   my_special_notification
>>     command_line                   echo "$USER1$/my-notification-script
>> $SOMEMACRO$ $SOMEOTHERMACRO$" >> /tmp/nagios-runs-me
>>     }
>>
>> After nagios calls 'my_special_notification', the file
>> /tmp/nagios-runs-me will contain the full command line that nagios
>> _would_ have executed if it had really run the command.
>>
> 
> 
> Doing what you suggest I see that it IS running the notification,
> except that the quotation marks are lost (which my external app
> actually needs  - so maybe I can double them up?) and none of the
> variables have been filled in within the quotes that are there
> (perhaps because it was an echo, and the echo command wiill take
> anything with quotes as strings?).

Hi,

You should be able to backslash the quotes you need it to print:
$ echo "\"hi\""

I'm not sure where above you would want them, maybe something like
\"$SOMEMACRO$\" \"$SOMEOTHERMACRO$\" ?

- Josh

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