Host Notification Problem

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Bill Kintz
> Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 3:28 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Host Notification Problem
> 
> The problem I am having is that my service notifications are being
sent
> and delivered properly, but host notifications being sent to the exact
> same contact are never being delivered, even though nagios indicates
they
> were sent.
> 
> Here are the pertinent config snippets:
> 
> - contacts.cfg:
> 
> # 'netops' contact definition
> define contact{
>         contact_name                    netops
>         alias                           netops
>         service_notification_period     24x7
>         host_notification_period        24x7
>         service_notification_options    w,c,r
>         host_notification_options       d,r
>         service_notification_commands   notify-by-email
>         host_notification_commands      host-notify-by-email
>         email                           xxx at xxx.xxx
>         }
> 
> 
> - misccommands.cfg:
> 
> # 'host-notify-by-email' command definition
> define command{
> 	command_name	host-notify-by-email
> 	command_line	/usr/bin/printf "%b" "Date/Time:
> $LONGDATETIME\nInfo: $HOSTOUTPUT$\n" | /usr/bin/mail -s "$HOSTSTATE$
alert
> for $HOSTNAME$" $CONTACTEMAIL$
> 	}

[chop]

> 
> Nagios 2.1 starting... (PID=25864)
> Send options without primary recipient specified.
> Usage: mail [-BFintv~] [-s subject] [-a attachment] [-c cc-addr] [-b
bcc-
> addr] [-r from-addr] [-h hops] [-R reply-addr] to-addr ... [-
sendmail-
> options ...]
>        mail [-BeHiInNv~] [-T name] -f [name]
>        mail [-BeinNv~] [-u user]
> 
> Logic tells me that something is wrong with the host-notify-by-email
> command setup that is causing mail to be unhappy, but I've been over
this
> about a zillion times and simply can't see the problem, which means
I'm
> probably overlooking something incredibly stupid and simple.

Yup. That is strange. It appears that $CONTACTEMAIL$ isn't being
populated. You can verify that by using something like the following for
your notification command --

	command_line	echo '/usr/bin/printf "%b" "Date/Time:
$LONGDATETIME\nInfo: $HOSTOUTPUT$\n" | /usr/bin/mail -s "$HOSTSTATE$
alert for $HOSTNAME$" $CONTACTEMAIL$' >> /tmp/try-notify

Maybe /tmp/try-notify will have something cluefull in it after a
notification attempt.

--
Marc

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