from the docs, $SERVICEOUTPUT$ just prints the first output line. If by any chance your plugin is outputting "\n$SERVICEOUTPUT$\n" the all you'll get would be a blank line. However, you can try using $LONGSERVICEOUTPUT$, as it prints everything from plugins' output. <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Peter Kranz <<a href="mailto:pkranz@unwiredltd.com">pkranz@unwiredltd.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> Confirmed: >service_notification_commands notify-by-email Apparently some reported similar issues in the past under the 2.0 chain.. > <a href="http://osdir.com/ml/network.nagios.devel/2005-11/msg00004.html" target="_blank">http://osdir.com/ml/network.nagios.devel/2005-11/msg00004.html</a> -Peter <div class="im"> -----Original Message----- From: Marc Powell [mailto:<a href="mailto:lists@xodus.org">lists@xodus.org</a>] Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 4:34 AM To: Nagios Users List Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] $SERVICEOUTPUT$ missing from emails.. Nagios 3.2.1 </div><div><div></div><div class="h5">On Apr 19, 2010, at 10:34 PM, Peter Kranz wrote: > It's the default that comes with the .tar: > > # '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:$LONGDATETIME$\n\nAdditional > Info:\n\n$SERVICEOUTPUT$" | /usr/bin/mail -s "** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ > alert - $HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ is $SERVICESTATE$ **" $CONTACTEMAIL$ > } Make sure the contact is using 'notify-by-email' as their service notification command. There have been no reports of this as a bug so I'd greatly lean toward it being a configuration issue. -- Marc ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. <a href="http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev" target="_blank">http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev</a> _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list <a href="mailto:Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net">Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a> <a href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users" target="_blank">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users</a> ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. <a href="http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev" target="_blank">http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev</a> _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list <a href="mailto:Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net">Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a> <a href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users" target="_blank">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users</a> ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null </div></div></blockquote></div>