<HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1479" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="MARGIN: 4px 4px 1px; FONT: 12pt Tahoma">Thanks for all of the responses. Alerting is fully reporting now. >>> Subhendu Ghosh <sghosh@sghosh.org> 1/28/2005 9:27 AM >>> <DIV style="COLOR: #000000">On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Bill Akins wrote: > Hi all, > > I am running Nagios 2.0b1 on RedHat Enterprise 3 (kernel > 2.4.21-27.0.2.ELsmp). > > I have recently installed Nagios and have 99 hosts and almost 200 > services defined and monitoring works great! I am having a very minor > problem with alerting. I get the messages by email and pager, but it > seems Nagios is passing the variable for datetime & output as an empty > and is catching the trailing $ as shown below: > > ***** Nagios ***** > > Notification Type: RECOVERY > > Service: MTA > Host: GroupWise Server 0 > Address: AAA.BBB.CCC.DDD > State: OK > > Date/Time: $ > > Additional Info: > > $ > > The relevant sections of misccommands.cfg follow: > > # 'notify-by-email' command definition > define command{ > command_name notify-by-email > command_line /usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios > *****\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\n\nService: > $SERVICEDESC$\nHost: $HOSTALIAS$\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nState: > $SERVICESTATE$\n\nDate/Time: $DATETIME$\n\nAdditional Info:\n\n$OUTPUT$" > | /bin/mail -s "** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ alert - $HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ > is $SERVICESTATE$ **" $CONTACTEMAIL$ > } > > > # 'notify-by-epager' command definition > define command{ > command_name notify-by-epager > command_line /usr/bin/printf "%b" "Service: > $SERVICEDESC$\nHost: $HOSTNAME$\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nState: > $SERVICESTATE$\nInfo: $OUTPUT$\nDate: $DATETIME$" | /bin/mail -s > "$NOTIFICATIONTYPE$: $HOSTALIAS$: $SERVICEDESC$ is $SERVICESTATE$" > $CONTACTPAGER$ > } > > Any clues on this one? It's not a show-stopper since email and pages > have a time stamp, but I would like to have it working before I show the > boss what Nagios can do for us. > > Thanx! > You are using the commands definitions from 1.x and some of the macros have changed in 2.0 to support the new features... $OUTPUT$ should be $SERVICEOUTPUT$ or $HOSTOUTPUT$ depending on the notification $DATETIME$ should be $LONGDATETIME$ or $SHORTDATETIME$ and depends on the date_format directive in nagios.cfg -- -sg </DIV></BODY></HTML>