Can I create my own macros??

[matato at pregi.net]

Hi,
  I've installed nagios and used jabber as its chatlert notification. What
  I did was to pipe the different macros to a perl script that I made such
  that the script will do the chat alert thing.
The script named jabberalert.pl looks like this:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;

use Notice;
our @array;
our $contact = shift @ARGV;

while(<STDIN>){
push @array, $_;
}


my $alert = new Notice;
$alert->contact_jabber('myaccount at jabber.server');
$alert->message('Nagios', "@array");
$alert->jabber;


The command definition for chatalert looks like this:
define command{
        command_name    hostchatalert
        command_line    /usr/bin/printf "HOST $HOSTSTATE$!!!\n\nHost:
        $HOSTNAME$($HOSTALIAS$)\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nLastCheck: $DATETIME$\n\nAlert Message:\n $OUTPUT$" | jabberalert.pl
}

For now, the script works fine with a hard coded contact_jabber. But what
I wanted to do is to use a variable in place of that contact_jabber, let's
say:$alert->contact_jabber("$contact");

Upon reading the manual of the macros, I found out that the Email and
pager really exist. Is it possible if I could just create a jabber entry
in the contacts.cfg like that of the email and pager so that I can use the
$CONTACTJABBER$ in my command definition of chatalert like this:
define command{
        command_name    hostchatalert
        command_line    /usr/bin/printf "HOST $HOSTSTATE$!!!\n\nHost:
        $HOSTNAME$($HOSTALIAS$)\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nLastCheck: $DATETIME$\n\nAlert Message:\n $OUTPUT$" | jabberalert.pl
$CONTACTJABBER$}

and change my perl script such that these line:
  $alert->contact_jabber('myaccount at jabber.server');

will look like this.
  my $contact = shift @ARGV;
  $alert->contact_jabber("$contact");


Or do you have any other idea??

thanks.













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