Command line format for external notification.

[Andreas Ericsson]

aait at free.fr wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I actually work on Nagios 1.3 and want to perform an external
> notification via a perl script I developped. This script takes 5
> parametres ($HOSTNAME, $OUTPUT,....). I have a problem to make the
> $OUTPUT$ variable to be seen as one variable for my script.
> 
> Example:
> 
> define command{
>    command_name    notify-by-xmlrpc
>    command_line    /usr/lib/nagios/myagent/notification/my_script
> $HOSTNAME$ CRITICAL $OUTPUT$ $SERVICEDESC$ $DATETIME$
>    }
> 

Put single quotes around each macro.

> The problem is $OUTPUT$ because it's a string and each word of this
> string is seen as on parameter. If this variable is "The service is
> down" my script will do this association:
> OUTPUT=The
> SERVICEDESC=service
> DATETIME=is
> 
> I have tested thess command lines without success:
> command_line    /usr/lib/nagios/myagent/notification/my_script
> $HOSTNAME$ CRITICAL "$OUTPUT$" $SERVICEDESC$ $DATETIME$
> command_line    /usr/lib/nagios/myagent/notification/my_script
> !$HOSTNAME$! CRITICAL !$OUTPUT$! !$SERVICEDESC$ ! !$DATETIME$!
> 
> 
> Finally, I had not found anything about my concern in the official
> documentation.
> 
> 
> Regards.
> 
> 
> 
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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
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