running an external script for sms notification

[Jim Avery]

On 15 September 2011 10:35, Metron 6 (six) <metron6 at gmail.com> wrote:
> hello all,
>
> i have a shell script which takes two arguments, the mobile phone
> number and the text message, which sends sms notifications.
> for example /usr/local/bin/sendsms 6944444444 "host problem"
>
> when i debug Nagios, i can see this into the log file
>
> [1316012199.774170] [256.1] [pid=17625] Running command
> '/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/sendsms 6944420xxx "Type:PROBLEM, Host:
> 00-dummy_2, State: DOWN, Address: 194.145.127.44, Info: Unknown ping
> number, Date/Time: 14-09-2011"'...
>
> when i run from a terminal the command
> /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/sendsms 6944420xxx "Type:PROBLEM, Host:
> 00-dummy_2, State: DOWN, Address: 194.145.127.44, Info: Unknown ping
> number, Date/Time: 14-09-2011"
> sms message arrives normally....
>
> this is how i include the command into nagios conf files..
>
> define command{
>       command_name                    host-notify-by-sms
>       command_line                    /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/sendsms
> $CONTACTPAGER$ "Type:$NOTIFICATIONTYPE$, Host: $HOSTNAME$, State:
> $HOSTSTATE$, Address: $HOSTADDRESS$, Info: $HOSTOUTPUT$, Date/Time:
> $DATE$"
> }
>
> any help/suggestions ?

Looks ok to me.  Am I right in assuming that when Nagios runs the
command you receive no SMS at all?  Or do you receive something but in
the wrong format?

When you run the command from the command-line, are you logged in as
'nagios'?  If not it could be a simple permissions problem.

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