Is there a way to include the result of check_nagios in the subject line of an e-mail?
Hari Sekhon
harisekhon at gmail.com
Wed Jul 5 16:37:14 CEST 2006
Hari Sekhon wrote:
> Rimbert Rivera wrote:
>> It's piping the command to mail.
>>
>> This is the check command:
>> /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nagios -F
>> /usr/local/nagios/var/status.log -e 5 -C /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios
>>
>> This is the mail command:
>> mail -s"Nagios Status check (heartbeat)" email at domain.com
>>
>> So I'm using the pipe command, "|", to redirect the output of the
>> check to mail
>>
>> Full command:
>> /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nagios -F
>> /usr/local/nagios/var/status.log -e 5 -C /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios
>> | mail -s"Nagios Status check (heartbeat)" email at domain.com
>>
>>
>> - Rim
>>
>> Rimbert Rivera
>> Manager, Information Technology
>> COMTEX News Network
>> rrivera at comtex.com
>> (703) 820-2000
>> Discover more about COMTEX at: http://www.comtex.com/
>> This e-mail is intended solely for the person or entity to which it
>> is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged
>> information. Any review, dissemination, copying, printing or other
>> use of this e-mail by persons or entities other than the addressee is
>> prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please contact
>> the sender immediately and delete the material from any computer.
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> *From:* Hari Sekhon [mailto:harisekhon at gmail.com]
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 05, 2006 9:25 AM
>> *To:* Rimbert Rivera
>> *Subject:* Re: [Nagios-users] Is there a way to include the result of
>> check_nagios in the subject line of an e-mail?
>>
>> Rimbert Rivera wrote:
>>>
>>> I have a Cron job running every two hours that runs check_nagios and
>>> e-mails us the result. Here's the command I'm using:
>>>
>>> /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nagios -F
>>> /usr/local/nagios/var/status.log -e 5 -C
>>> /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios | mail -s"Nagios Status check
>>> (heartbeat)" email at domain.com
>>>
>>> The command e-mails the check_nagios output as the e-mail body. Is
>>> there a way to put it in the subject line instead? I cannot figure
>>> it out. I don't think mail will let me do what I want. Is there
>>> something else I can use? I'm using RedHat 9.
>>>
>>> - Rim
>>>
>>> Rimbert Rivera
>>> Manager, Information Technology
>>> COMTEX News Network
>>> rrivera at comtex.com
>>> (703) 820-2000
>>> Discover more about COMTEX at: _http://www.comtex.com/_
>>> This e-mail is intended solely for the person or entity to which it
>>> is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged
>>> information. Any review, dissemination, copying, printing or other
>>> use of this e-mail by persons or entities other than the addressee
>>> is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please
>>> contact the sender immediately and delete the material from any
>>> computer.
>>>
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>> how are you sending the emails?
>>
>>
> this works for me:
>
> /usr/nagios/libexec/check_nagios -F /var/nagios/status.log -e 5 -C
> /usr/nagios/bin/nagios > nagtest.txt
> mail -s "`cat nagtest.txt`" me at mydomain.com < /dev/null
>
> -h
>
>
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