Email Notifications

[djtremors]

I noticed since moving to 2.1 from 1.3 that my email notifications don’t report anything in the data section. From memory it used to display whatever value was returned from the check_ command.

ie.

***** Nagios *****

Notification Type: PROBLEM

Service: wardrive_memory_used
Host: Exchange Server
Address: 192.168.1.1
State: CRITICAL

Date/Time: $

Additional Info:

$

I don’t know if this is a new change and I’m suppose to adjust something since 1.3 or this is a bug/permission or other problem.

anyone got/had this problem?

[luca]

check the standing topic regarding problems in 2.0 ocumentation. you need to modify slightly the notify by email command.
meulie.net/portal_plugins/fo … c.php?6194

Luca

[jakkedup]

@jakkedup

The nagios docs show that many macro’s have been removed/replaced.
One in particular is:
$DATETIME$ from V1.x has been replaced with $LONGDATETIME$ and/or $SHORTDATETIME$
The problem is that in the notify by email command from the minimal.cfg had $LONGDATETIME$ in the command definition, and I replaced it with $SHORTDATETIME$. Having the “short” in there blew up the rest of the command output.

So, it appears to me, that the macro $SHORTDATETIME$ does not work. Will someone verify this please?

Not only that, but minimal.cfg should NOT have had the command defined such as it is below. The reason is because $OUTPUT$ is no longer valid, It has been replaced with $HOSTOUTPUT$ and/or $SERVICEOUTPUT$ WTF is this about? Doesn’t anyone check these configs before they release it as a “STABLE RELEASE?”

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: $SHORTDATETIME$\n\nAdditional Info:\n\n$OUTPUT$" | /bin/mail -s " $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ alert - $HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ is $SERVICESTATE$ **” $CONTACTEMAIL$
}