Customized macros not working for contacts

[Andreas Ericsson]

On 05/03/2012 04:58 PM, Deborah Martin wrote:
> Thanks Andreas,
> 
>>> Are environment macros are turned on and
>>> large_installation_tweaks turned off? Otherwise, it's not
>>> supposed to work.
> Yes for both settings
> 
> I do see your point about a fix. It's a shame because setting this in
> the contact definition would have made some event handlers easier to
> write.
> 
> At the moment my event handler has to be customized per customer to
> get the right email contacts but if I could define a customized macro
> in the contact definition, I only need use that in my event handler
> script and then I don't need to worry about a different event handler
> per customer making it as generic as possible. Things like warning
> and critical thresholds are parsed based on customer requirements
> rather than hardcoded so I was hoping I could do that with contacts.
> 
> Is there a different way of achieving this ?
> 

Use the macro as a command-line parameter from Nagios' config. From
what I read in your original mail, that seemed to work well, no?

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