<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 5.5.2658.24"> <TITLE>Macro usage when sending SMS</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> Hi all !!! Just started as a Nagios user so I am new on the list. I have nagios running and I also have a basic structure in place for sending SMS'es ( using smstools ). I need to expand it now because I have many people that want to be notified of only selected system information. At this point in time, all contacts are sent ALL information. So , bottom line is, I need to diffrentiate based on $USERNAME$ as defined in my contacts. define command{ command_name notify-by-sms command_line /usr/local/nagios/libexec/send_sms $HOSTNAME$ $HOSTSTATE$ $USERNAME } And then in ../libexec , my "send_sms"-script looks as follows: ( This is how it looks CURRENTLY ) #!/bin/bash HOST = $1 STATE = $2 ../sms/smstools/scripts/sendsms 0821111111 "$HOST $STATE" ../sms/smstools/scripts/sendsms 0822222222 "$HOST $STATE" [ entry for each cell-number ] I would like to make use of $USERNAME$ to control what gets sent to who. But, when I print the contents of $USERNAME$ in the script, it is either blank or it contains "-". I do have all my contacts defined in my ../minimal.cfg file OS = CentOS4.0 Nagios 2.4 smstools 2.2.4 a Pointer would be much appreciated ??? Thanks ! John Longland </BODY> </HTML>