Is there a way to include the result of check_nagios in the subject line of an e-mail?

[Hari Sekhon]

Hari Sekhon wrote:
> Rimbert Rivera wrote:
>> Thanks, Hari, that works great!
>>  
>>
>> - Rim
>>
>> Rimbert Rivera
>> Manager, Information Technology
>> COMTEX News Network
>> rrivera at comtex.com
>> (703) 820-2000
>> Discover more about COMTEX at: http://www.comtex.com/
>> This e-mail is intended solely for the person or entity to which it 
>> is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged 
>> information. Any review, dissemination, copying, printing or other 
>> use of this e-mail by persons or entities other than the addressee is 
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>>  
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> *From:* Hari Sekhon [mailto:harisekhon at gmail.com]
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 05, 2006 9:37 AM
>> *To:* Rimbert Rivera
>> *Subject:* Re: [Nagios-users] Is there a way to include the result of 
>> check_nagios in the subject line of an e-mail?
>>
>> Rimbert Rivera wrote:
>>> It's piping the command to mail.
>>>  
>>> This is the check command:
>>> /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nagios -F 
>>> /usr/local/nagios/var/status.log -e 5 -C /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios
>>>  
>>> This is the mail command:
>>> mail -s"Nagios Status check (heartbeat)" email at domain.com
>>>  
>>> So I'm using the pipe command, "|", to redirect the output of the 
>>> check to mail
>>>  
>>> Full command:
>>> /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nagios -F 
>>> /usr/local/nagios/var/status.log -e 5 -C 
>>> /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios | mail -s"Nagios Status check 
>>> (heartbeat)" email at domain.com
>>>  
>>>
>>> - Rim
>>>
>>> Rimbert Rivera
>>> Manager, Information Technology
>>> COMTEX News Network
>>> rrivera at comtex.com
>>> (703) 820-2000
>>> Discover more about COMTEX at: http://www.comtex.com/
>>> This e-mail is intended solely for the person or entity to which it 
>>> is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged 
>>> information. Any review, dissemination, copying, printing or other 
>>> use of this e-mail by persons or entities other than the addressee 
>>> is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please 
>>> contact the sender immediately and delete the material from any 
>>> computer.
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> *From:* Hari Sekhon [mailto:harisekhon at gmail.com]
>>> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 05, 2006 9:25 AM
>>> *To:* Rimbert Rivera
>>> *Subject:* Re: [Nagios-users] Is there a way to include the result 
>>> of check_nagios in the subject line of an e-mail?
>>>
>>> Rimbert Rivera wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I have a Cron job running every two hours that runs check_nagios 
>>>> and e-mails us the result.  Here's the command I'm using:
>>>>
>>>> /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nagios -F 
>>>> /usr/local/nagios/var/status.log -e 5 -C 
>>>> /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios | mail -s"Nagios Status check 
>>>> (heartbeat)" email at domain.com
>>>>
>>>> The command e-mails the check_nagios output as the e-mail body.  Is 
>>>> there a way to put it in the subject line instead?  I cannot figure 
>>>> it out.  I don't think mail will let me do what I want.  Is there 
>>>> something else I can use?  I'm using RedHat 9.
>>>>
>>>> - Rim
>>>>
>>>> Rimbert Rivera
>>>> Manager, Information Technology
>>>> COMTEX News Network
>>>> rrivera at comtex.com
>>>> (703) 820-2000
>>>> Discover more about COMTEX at: _http://www.comtex.com/_
>>>> This e-mail is intended solely for the person or entity to which it 
>>>> is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged 
>>>> information. Any review, dissemination, copying, printing or other 
>>>> use of this e-mail by persons or entities other than the addressee 
>>>> is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please 
>>>> contact the sender immediately and delete the material from any 
>>>> computer.
>>>>
>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
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>>> how are you sending the emails?
>>>
>>>
>> this works for me:
>>
>> /usr/nagios/libexec/check_nagios -F /var/nagios/status.log -e 5 -C 
>> /usr/nagios/bin/nagios > nagtest.txt
>> mail -s "`cat nagtest.txt`" me at mydomain.com < /dev/null
>>
>> -h
>>
>>
> I liked it, so now I've written a shell script to use this and send me 
> a heartbeat, thanks for the idea...! I've also modified the heartbeat 
> script to make a separate script to send me an email to a different 
> alias only if there is a problem so I can filter them easily and be 
> notified more clearly if there is a problem..
>
> -h

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