Using macros in notification commands

[Colby, James]

Hello - 

I was wondering if it is possible to use macro's in a notification
command.  I am beginning in suspect that it is not after trying to set
one up.  What I am trying to do is to create a generic command that will
send a winpop notification when a service/host is in trouble.  I do not
want to have to create a separate win popup notification command for
each of my contacts, so I would like to be able to pass the machine name
to my notification command.  Here is what I have tried so far:

Misccommands.cfg:
	define command{
        command_name    host-notify-by-winpopup
        command_line    /usr/bin/printf "%b" "Host '$HOSTALIAS$' is
$HOSTSTATE$, Info: $OUTPUT$, Time: $DATETIME$" |
/usr/local/samba/bin/smbclient -M $ARG1$
        }

Contacts.cfg:
	define contact{
        contact_name                    jcolby
        alias                           jcolby
        service_notification_period     24x7
        host_notification_period        24x7
        service_notification_options    w,u,c,r
        host_notification_options       d,u,r
        service_notification_commands   
		service-notify-by-email,service-notify-by-epager
        host_notification_commands      
		host-notify-by-email, host-notify-by-winpopup!jcolby-xp
        email                           <jcolby at enterasys.com>        
        }

When I check my config with nagios -v nagios.cfg it reports an error
that notification command host-notify-by-winpopup!jcolby-xp does not
exist.  I am assuming that means that I cannot use the macros in my
misccomands.cfg file the same way that I can use them in the
checkcommands.cfg file.  Is that correct, or am I just doing something
wrong.

Thank you very much.
James




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