We accomplish this same thing using a script called 'oncall', which will output the contact information for whoever is on call currently, in conjunction with a script I posted on nagiosexchange called 'nagios_notify'. It allows you to easily execute a command and include the output in your notifications, among a few other neat little tricks. http://www.nagiosexchange.org/Notifications.35.0.html?&tx_netnagext_pi1[ p_view]=627
</plug> -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Shipway Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2006 3:14 PM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] custom fields Az wrote: > Kyle Vorster wrote: > > What i am trying to do is give a more detailed email > notification to my > > clients. > You can define your notification commands > (http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/xodtemplate.html#command) with > whatever you want in them using the relevant macros I think the idea was to get a more detailed description on a *per-service* basis. This was our problem, also. The way I managed to get around it was to create a new program - 'buster'. This has two parts - one, a web frontend that stores messages in a mysql database, and two, an extraction utility that, when given hostname and servicename, will spit out a message deduced from the database. This utility is embedded in the notify command. The web frontend unfortunately doesnt have any extra security in it, so anyone can edit any of the match templates. Also, the extracted messages are fixed text and dont have embedded replaceable symbols; but they can match on host, hstgroup, servicename, status, and using wildcards. I havent posted to Nagiosexchange because it would require a bit more work to be generic enough for everyone else to use it easily; however if youre perl-savvy email me and you can have a copy. The name 'buster' comes from 'ghostbuster', since it is supposed to use this extra text to tell the night ops who they're gonna call... Steve -- Steve Shipway ITSS, University of Auckland (09) 3737 599 x 86487 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null