Nagios not reporting failures

[James Green]

Andreas Ericsson wrote:

> Nagios shoots out alerts via external commands executed by the shell. 
> If you have any shell metachars in the output, that may cause a 
> problem like this. Typical trouble-makers include but are not limited 
> to: unclosed quotes, semi-colons, exclamation points.
>
Here is the command:

define command{
        command_name    notify-by-sms
        command_line    /opt/bin/php -f /home/jmkg/contacts.php 
$CONTACTPAGER$ tier1 'Nagios $HOSTNAME$ $HOSTSTATE$ $SERVICEDESC$ 
$SERVICESTATE$'
        }

If I run that command with sample data (taken from a near identical 
installation's log file) as the nagios user, I get an SMS and a log file 
message.

Nagios itself appears not to run it. If I could trace through exactly 
what is happening it would help me no end, can't see how though?

Nagios logs it:

1096476302] SERVICE NOTIFICATION: jmkg;s1c1;PING eth1 
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx;CRITICAL;notify-by-sms;CRITICAL - Plugin timed out after 
10 seconds


-- 
James Green
Systems Administrator, StealthNET Ltd, www.stealthnet.co.uk
Tel: 0870 800 1777 Intl: +44 1493 660066 Fax: 0870 135 1069



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