external notification commands

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Brian Loe
> Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 11:21 AM
> To: Marc Powell
> Cc: Nagios Users mailinglist
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] external notification commands
> 
> On 1/24/07, Marc Powell <marc at ena.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> > Try this to see if the program is reporting any errors --
> >
> > # 'notify-by-pager' command definition
> > define command{
> >        command_name    notify-by-pager
> >        command_line    /usr/local/pager/client $CONTACTADDRESS1$
> > "Service: $SERVICEDESC$\nHost: $HOSTNAME$\nAddress:
> > $HOSTADDRESS$\nState: $SERVICESTATE$\nInfo: $SERVICEOUTPUT$\nDate:
> > $LONGDATETIME$ $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$: $HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ is
> > $SERVICESTATE$"'>> /tmp/nagios_notification.log 2>&1
> >
> 
> Okay, did that, it created the file but didn't put anything in it.
> 

Well, then the script is being called but doesn't output anything. Is
that normal? It's looking more and more to me that you need to get more
verbose output from the 'client' program. Everything we've done so far
indicates that nagios is doing exactly what it's supposed to.

--
Marc

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