I get emails but I can't fill them with any information from the specific alarms

[Marc Powell]

On Dec 29, 2009, at 9:01 AM, Jorge Gil wrote:

> # 'notify-service-by-email' command definition
> 
> define command{
> 
> command_name notify-service-by-email
> 
> command_line /usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios *****\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\n\nService: $SERVICEDESC$\nHost: $HOSTALIAS$\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nState: $SERVICESTATE$\n\nDate/Time: $LONGDATETIME$\n\nAdditional Info:\n\n$SERVICEOUTPUT$" | /usr/bin/mail -s "** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ Service Alert: $HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ is $SERVICESTATE$ **" $CONTACTEMAIL$
> 
> }

This looks typical.

> i wasnt getting emails.

Emails for what and how were they being instigated? Did you have a service failure and not receive a notification? Does nagios.log show NOTIFICATION entries? Does /var/log/maillog show an attempt to send?

> Now a simplified version of the command:
> 
>   
> # 'notify-service-by-email' command definition
> 
> define command{
> 
> command_name notify-service-by-email
> 
> command_line printf "%b" "$HOSTADDRESS$" | /usr/bin/mail -s Subject_of_email my_email_address
> 
> }
> 
> does send me emails, but it doesnt translate the hostaddress, i get just a dollar sign in the body of the email.

A '$' in the body means that you either have a typo in the $MACRONAME$ or the macro isn't valid for the type of notification you are trying to send. $HOSTADDRESS$ is valid for all notification types so you should verify you don't have a typo in the macro name. http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/macrolist.html

An alternative is that you aren't actually calling these as notification commands but as event_handlers. Using a notification command as an event_handler is not proper. It should be listed in the appropriate contact{} definition as host/service_notification_command (off the top of my head).

--
Marc


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