Custom messages in alerts

[Subhendu Ghosh]

On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Brian Roy wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I would like to extend our Nagios installation to replace our alert system
> on our AS/400. Currently the AS/400 sends out pages to individual phones
> based on events. The body of those pages would have pertinent information to
> the event. What I would like to do is have the AS/400 trigger a status in
> Nagios, and then the page that Nagios sends have that pertinent information
> in the body. That way I can take advantage of the Nagios strengths. How do I
> get the meat of the error message into the Nagios Alert and then forwarded
> out with the notification types.
>
> Hopefully I'm just missing something obvious here and someone can give me
> some advice.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brian
>

Have the AS/400 trigger send a passive update to Nagios with SERVICEOUTPUT 
and SERVICEPERFDATA

Include the pertinent info in either of the above fields.  They are/can be 
used in the notification commands.


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-sg


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