Nagios Setup -Macros ??

[Patrick Morris]

On Fri, 01 Feb 2008, sachin holikar wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
>  I have installed Nagios 2.9 on RedHat Linux 4.0 recently. This took a bit of time to configure. Anyways now I have my webaccess set up. Now the main part if to add hosts/services to get their alerts.
> I have also tested it to receive an Email Alert when a service e.g. HTTP is not running.
> My couple of questions are
> 
> 1. I have seen on a official website that other forms of alerts are also present like Pager/User Defined action apart from Email Alerts Notifications. We are interested in these User Defined actions. Is it that we can run a particular command or Script itself when any such Alert is generated ?? If yes How do we do it?
> I have heard that Nagios uses Macros for all these notifications. If yes can we modify them ? How ?
> 
> 2. Regading Email Alerts, can we alter the Format of these Email Alerts Notifications?? How?
> 
> It would be great if some one can atleast guide us in a right direction.

All of these questions are answered in the docs and example
configuration files.

With Nagios, all notifications are user-defined; Nagios calls whatever
you tell it to call for notifications, using the parameters you provide
it. There are no built-in notification methods.

You cannot modify the available macros, and I'm not sure you'd want to.
If you want something not provided by the available macros, there's
probably a way to do it.

Also, again, all notifications are user-defined, so yes, you can change
the format to whatever you'd like.

It looks like you've got a lot of questions, but haven't looked at the
documentation yet. I'd recommend doing that, then coming back to the
list if you still have questions.


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