Customized macros not working for contacts

[Jochen Bern]

On 05/04/2012 04:28 PM, Deborah Martin wrote:
> So my eventhandler would parse $SERVICESTATEID$ $HOSTALIAS$ and
> $_EMAILCONTACTID 
> 
> And in my eventhandler, I would have a line something like "echo
> <results> | mailx -s "Results from $NAGIOS_HOSTALIAS"
> $NAGIOS__CONTACTEMAILCONTACTID 

FWIW, you have a major systematic problem there. Event handlers are
triggered *once* per service (and event), while said service can have
*any* number of contacts with their individual sets of Custom Macros. In
your example, the service may have exactly one contact, but that's
something Nagios would need to learn to check for to ever even get the
idea that Contact Custom Macros might be well-defined in your Event Handler.

Hence, I'ld even say that *Service* Custom Macros is where your
additional data *belongs*.

You are aware that you can reference *several* templates, as in "use
dbcon-service,special-contact-template", to combine perpendicular
default settings?

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objectinheritance.html
(Scroll to end of page)

Kind regards,
								J. Bern
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