Customized macros not working for contacts

[Deborah Martin]

Jochen, 

Thanks. Yes, I can create another template and add that as you suggest. I'd hoped to keep contacts defined within a contact definition and since it's documented that it should work .... 

But I'll try it out as you suggest and go from there. 

Regards,
Deborah 
Frustration=Finding something that you want to use documented only to find out it doesn't work! 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jochen Bern [mailto:Jochen.Bern at LINworks.de] 
Sent: 04 May 2012 16:02
To: Nagios Developers List
Cc: Deborah Martin
Subject: Re: [Nagios-devel] Customized macros not working for contacts

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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