How to get stdout from event handlers into Nagiosemail messages?

[Kelly Alexander]

	I was hoping that the event handler ran first, and then the
notice was sent out.  Guess that's not the way it works.

	Since it's not possible I won't worry about it anymore and will
just write something that notifies me from the handler itself. 


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Kelly Alexander
Skyrider Corporation 
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Shipway [mailto:s.shipway at auckland.ac.nz] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 9:01 PM
To: Kelly Alexander; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] How to get stdout from event handlers into
Nagiosemail messages?

> 	Hi, I'm running Nagios 2.5 and my question is: is there any way
to 
> capture the stdout of an event handler and get it into the email 
> Nagios sends out?

If you think about it, this must be impossible.

Since the event handler is called at the same time as the notifications,
the output (if any) is not avaiable when the notifications are queued as
the event handler has not yet run.

The only way I can see to do this is to code an email sender into your
event handler script.

You could fudge it by creating a dummy service for the same host that
uses freshness to immediately reset to OK and has a count of 1, and then
have your event handler send a passive alert (containing the output
text) to this service.  The dummy service (which has the same contacts
as the main service) then sends out a separate alert to the contacts
with this information.  You could probably even create a generic
eventhandler wrapper script to do this.

Steve

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