$OUTPUT$

[Andreas Ericsson]

On 12/16/2010 09:08 PM, stan wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 05:21:43PM +0100, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
>> On 12/16/2010 04:11 PM, stan wrote:
>>> We are working on our first Nagios parent chiled system. As I understand
>>> it, on the chile I need to invoke something that looks like:
>>>
>>> /usr/share/nagios/sbin/submit_check_result $HOSTNAME$ '$SERVICEDESC$'
>>> $SERVICESTATE$ '$OUTPUT$'
>>>
>>> That script then does something like this:
>>>
>>> /usr/bin/printf "%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\n" "$1" "$2" "$return_code" "$4" |
>>> /usr/sbin/send_nsca pnoc -c /etc/send_nsca.cfg
>>>
>>> Ny current issue is that $OUTPUT$ does ot seem to be getting expanded.
>>> Insteadit is literaly showing up on the Nagios run time web screen as
>>> $OUTPUT$.
>>>
>>
>> Check the docs for what macros are available for obsessive host and
>> service check commands.
>>
>> Or use merlin. It was designed for things like this.
>>
> losure for the list archives:
> 
> THis sugestion led to a Google search for "Nagios Macors" Which led to a
> page listing the macros and "where" they are avail;able. Turns out that the
> actual macro is $HOSTOUTPT".
> 
> Question, why does the Nagios parser not complain about invalid macros?

Because they could be environment variables. The syntax for describing macros
is a bit fragile.

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