Re: [Nagios-users] stange symbols in notifications

Hari Sekhon Mon, 14 Aug 2006 01:45:17 -0700

Hugo van der Kooij wrote:

On Fri, 11 Aug 2006, Hari Sekhon wrote:

Hari Sekhon wrote:

Here is an example


CRITICAL: Only 19.11G (4%) free on 92.168.1.138ig2


Why does it seem to be mangled? Is this a character set issue or a local issue or something?

also, the web interface shows this normally:

CRITICAL: Only 18.85G (4%) free on \\192.168.1.138\big2

but the email alerts always come out as

CRITICAL: Only 18.88G (4%) free on 92.168.1.138ig2


Which makes sense if you read the printf() documentation. You are using a
character which has a special meaning in string handling environments.
Just get rid of those backslashes or escape them properly.

It's not that terrible cos I still know what's going on but this
shouldn't happen, and I'd like to resolve it.


You got exactly what you ordered.

Hugo.

After following your suggestion regarding prinf and checking the previously unchanged misccommand.cfg I'm not entirely sure what is going on here. The definition for email is below:

# 'notify-by-email' command definition
define command{
    command_name    notify-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: $DATETIME$\n\nAdditional Info:\n\n$OUTPUT$" | /bin/mail -s "** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ alert - $HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ is $SERVICESTATE$ **" $CONTACTEMAIL$
    }

This doesn't look bad to me, it seems to simply be using lots of Macro$ so I assume that the macro must be sending it something funny....

Will have to scratch my head and try to track that down.

Hari

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