Allow access to custom variables outside Nagios

[Alex Griffin]

Custom variables are are case-sensitive. Try using 
NAGIOS__HOSTserverfunction.

Alex Griffin
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On 06/16/2012 06:05 AM, Ruslan Valiyev wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We have custom variables like this:
>
> define host {
> use linux-server
> host_name host.foo.com <http://host.foo.com>
> address 192.168.1.44
> _serverfunction Oracle EBS R12 Application Server
> _serveradmin Admins_Linux
> _serviceadmin //Admins_Oracle
> _userorg ACME
> }
>
> Now we have our own script to send out the notifications. And,
> apparently, custom variables are not exported outside Nagios for safety.
>
> To give an example of when we’re able to get the var data:
> my $o_hostname = $ENV{NAGIOS_HOSTNAME};
>
> And this one doesn’t return anything:
> my $o_hostfunction = $ENV{NAGIOS__HOSTSERVERFUNCTION};
>
> Could someone help finding this limitation in the source code? The
> environment we have is pretty strict and isolated, also the custom
> variables we use never contain any confidential information.
>
>
> Regards,
> Ruslan
>
>
>
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