Can I create my own macros??
Andreas Ericsson
ae at op5.se
Wed Feb 16 11:26:48 CET 2005
matato at pregi.net wrote:
> Hi,
> I've installed nagios and used jabber as its chatlert notification. What
> I did was to pipe the different macros to a perl script that I made such
> that the script will do the chat alert thing.
> The script named jabberalert.pl looks like this:
>
> #!/usr/local/bin/perl
> use warnings;
> use strict;
>
> use Notice;
> our @array;
> our $contact = shift @ARGV;
>
> while(<STDIN>){
> push @array, $_;
> }
>
>
> my $alert = new Notice;
> $alert->contact_jabber('myaccount at jabber.server');
> $alert->message('Nagios', "@array");
> $alert->jabber;
>
>
> The command definition for chatalert looks like this:
> define command{
> command_name hostchatalert
> command_line /usr/bin/printf "HOST $HOSTSTATE$!!!\n\nHost:
> $HOSTNAME$($HOSTALIAS$)\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nLastCheck: $DATETIME$\n\nAlert Message:\n $OUTPUT$" | jabberalert.pl
> }
>
> For now, the script works fine with a hard coded contact_jabber. But what
> I wanted to do is to use a variable in place of that contact_jabber, let's
> say:$alert->contact_jabber("$contact");
>
> Upon reading the manual of the macros, I found out that the Email and
> pager really exist. Is it possible if I could just create a jabber entry
> in the contacts.cfg like that of the email and pager so that I can use the
> $CONTACTJABBER$ in my command definition of chatalert like this:
> define command{
> command_name hostchatalert
> command_line /usr/bin/printf "HOST $HOSTSTATE$!!!\n\nHost:
> $HOSTNAME$($HOSTALIAS$)\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nLastCheck: $DATETIME$\n\nAlert Message:\n $OUTPUT$" | jabberalert.pl
> $CONTACTJABBER$}
>
No. In nagios 2.x you could use the address1 through address6 for that
though, or simply add a new contact or do any of a hundred different
things. What you cannot do is invent macros on the fly.
> and change my perl script such that these line:
> $alert->contact_jabber('myaccount at jabber.server');
>
> will look like this.
> my $contact = shift @ARGV;
> $alert->contact_jabber("$contact");
>
>
> Or do you have any other idea??
>
> thanks.
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