NAGIOS 3: Adjusting fields which appear in the default nagios log

[Morris, Patrick]

Traiano Welcome wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I’m sending nagios logs to a 3rd party application (Netcool) for 
> processing, and there is a requirement for the IP address of the 
> monitored device to appear in the ALERT and NOTIFY log lines for host 
> and service statuses. Where would I adjust which fields appear in the 
> nagios log lines?
>
> A typical host ALERT log line on my installation looks like this:
>
> ---
> Mar 17 11:51:42 nagserver nagios: HOST ALERT: 
> <hostname-x>;UP;SOFT;2;PING OK - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 260.81 ms
> ---
>
> I’d like an extra field to appear after <hostname-x> indicating the IP 
> of the host. If possible, I’d even like to insert  $PARENT for the 
> host as a field somewhere here.

If I had to do this, I'd just modify my notification command to generate 
a separate log with the fields required, using the provided macros.

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