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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi all.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Is it possible to add your own custom commands to add to the 2 standard notify commands?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">At the moment I have <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""># 'notify-host-by-email' command definition<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">define command{<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> command_name notify-host-by-email<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> command_line /usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios says its broken *****\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\n\n$HOSTOUTPUT$\n\nHost: $HOSTNAME$\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nState: $HOSTSTATE$\n\nDate/Time:
$LONGDATETIME$" | /usr/bin/mail -s "** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ Host Alert: $HOSTNAME$ is $HOSTSTATE$ **" $CONTACTEMAIL$<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> }<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""># 'notify-service-by-email' command definition<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">define command{<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> command_name notify-service-by-email<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> command_line /usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios says its broken *****\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\n\nInfo :$SERVICEOUTPUT$\n\n Service: $SERVICEDESC$\nHost:
$HOSTALIAS$\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nState: $SERVICESTATE$\n\nDate/Time: $LONGDATETIME$" | /usr/bin/mail -s "** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ Service Alert: $HOSTALIAS$ is $SERVICESTATE$ **" $CONTACTEMAIL$<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> }</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">This is fine for the hosts that I manage by PING.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Now I have started to manage my websites for both availability and also to navigate through the site using 2 separate scripts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Id like separate notifications for the website checks as id like to add more text into the subject line.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">For eg if 1 of my sites has an issues and 1 of the pages it navigates for is not available or returns something different to what it should id like:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""># 'notify-website-service-by-email' command definition<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">define command{<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> command_name notify-website-service-by-email<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> command_line /usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios says its broken *****\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\n\nInfo :$SERVICEOUTPUT$\n\n Service: $SERVICEDESC$\nHost:
$HOSTALIAS$\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nState: $SERVICESTATE$\n\nDate/Time: $LONGDATETIME$" | /usr/bin/mail -s "** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ Service Alert: Website content cannot be found at $HOSTALIAS$ and is in a $SERVICESTATE$ state**" $CONTACTEMAIL$<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> }</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">But if I create this and add it to my Critical website template which tells it to to email the admin email contact group which has me and another admin in it then its going to send both
the original “notify-service-by-email” and the new “notify-website-service-by-email<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Any way I can get around this.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Apologies if it’s a really simple answer by the way….<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Thankyou<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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