How can I get more information - eventlog descriptions - in my notification emails

[Scott, Ewan]

Marc
Thanks for this.

By returning to using $SERVICEOUTPUT$ and placing this towards the beginning of the printf output - see below - I now get the EventLog text into the notification email. I lose the "Additional Info:" text literal at the end of the email so presumably there is a fixed size for the output which cannot be extended. However, for what I'm trying to do, I think it is sufficient.

Regards
Ewan

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







-----Original Message-----
From: Marc Powell [mailto:marc at ena.com] 
Sent: 05 February 2010 16:51
To: Scott, Ewan
Cc: Nagios Mailinglist
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] How can I get more information - eventlog descriptions - in my notification emails


On Feb 5, 2010, at 10:25 AM, Scott, Ewan wrote:

> Hi
>  
> I'm looking to get more information in my notificiation emails. Specifically, I'd like to get the text of Windows server Eventlogs into the body of the email. This information is coming across to the nagios server and can be found in the log file.
> See example below:
> Feb  5 15:08:36 sbc-omega-test nagios: SERVICE NOTIFICATION: nagiosadmin;hq-test-01;EventLog TempDB start chk;WARNING;notify-service-by-email;informational: MSSQLSERVER: Starting up database ReportServerTempDB. (384), eventlog: 384  warning

> I had hoped I could resolve this by changing the $SERVICEOUTPUT$ to $LONGSERVICEOUTPUT$ in the notify-service-by-email command definition (see below).
> # '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$LONGSERVICEOUTPUT$" | /usr/bin/mail -s "** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ Service
>  Alert: $HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ is $SERVICESTATE$ **" $CONTACTEMAIL$
>         }
> However this did not give any change in the output. That's all  I've changed on the server. Can anyone give me pointers as to what else I need to change?

$SERVICEOUTPUT$ is the macro that you want. It looks like the plugin is only outputting one line of text. Make sure it is/was typed correctly in the notification command above. --

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/macrolist.html#serviceoutput

$SERVICEOUTPUT$ The first line of text output from the last service check (i.e. "Ping OK").

$LONGSERVICEOUTPUT$ The full text output (aside from the first line) from the last service check. (e.g. everything beyond the first line of text).

--
Marc


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