Use of customized macro in CONTACT definition

[Deborah Martin]

Alex, 

Thanks, but I set _EMAILID in my contact definition so by echoing it in my script 
via defining a service that calls that script as a plugin which has a contact defined as test-admin 
surely I have set it. 

According to the docs, nagios prefixes custom macros with NAGIOS__CONTACT if it's a contact definition macro which it is. So the environment variable becomes  $NAGIOS__CONTACTEMAILID - note the two underlines are correct and the _ prefix in the definition is stripped. As documented it states it's to avoid name collision with $NAGIOS_<nagios_macro> such as the macro $HOSTALIAS$ would expand to $NAGIOS_HOSTALIAS as an environment variable that can be used in scripts such as eventhandlers. But I could also have _HOSTALIAS which would expand to NAGIOS__SERVICEHOSTALIAS to make a distinction with NAGIOS_HOSTALIAS... 

And as mentioned when i take that _EMAILID and put in my service definition instead, the same script that now does echo "EMAILID=$NAGIOS__SERVICEEMAILID" works but the only difference is I've moved the EMAILID from part of a contact definition to a service definition yet the docs supports custom macros in a contact definitions. 

By docs I'm referring to the documentation link on the nagios web interface and search for macros. 

Regards,
Deborah 
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From: Alex Griffin [agriffin at nagios.com]
Sent: 25 April 2012 18:16
To: Nagios Users List
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Use of customized macro in CONTACT definition

You said you tried to echo “EMAILID=$NAGIOS__CONTACTEMAILID”, but
echoing this string will not set EMAILID to the value of
$NAGIOS_CONTACTEMAILID. You should set EMAILID, and then echo it afterwards.

Otherwise, looking over your settings they seem to be fine.

Alex Griffin
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Deborah Martin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I’m trying to define a customized contact macro so that I can pass it to
> an event handler
>
> My contact definition is :-
>
> define contact{
>
> contact_name test-admin
>
> alias test-admin
>
> service_notification_period 24x7
>
> host_notification_period 24x7
>
> service_notification_options w,u,c,r
>
> host_notification_options d,u,r
>
> service_notification_commands notify-by-email
>
> host_notification_commands host-notify-by-email
>
> email deborah.martin at kognitio.com <mailto:deborah.martin at kognitio.com>
>
> _EMAILID deborah.martin at kognitio.com <mailto:deborah.martin at kognitio.com>
>
> }
>
> Then in my script test I just do echo “EMAILID=$NAGIOS__CONTACTEMAILID”
>
> This doesn’t work. But if I put the same customized macro into a service
> definition and change the test script to “EMAILID=$NAGIOS__SERVICEEMAILID”
>
> it works fine.
>
> According to the docs, I’m specifying this correctly. I’m using nagios
> 3.2.0 on SLES10.
>
> So, am I doing something that should work and is a bug and if so is it
> fixed in a later nagios version or have I done something silly here…?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Deborah
>
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