Macro for server name?

[thewinelake]

Is there a macro that I can use to give me the hostname of the nagios server itself?

I want this as we may have several nagios servers, and when they send an SMS, I'd like to know which one is sending it.

Of course I could manually put it into the command, but would be nice if it were simpler.

[eloyd]

Nope. No such thing in the docs or the source.

I would think if you're sending an SMS, then you would want to make each character count, so I don't know why you want the hostname in there, but you can always add it in the printf command within commands.cfg. Here's one idea. Note the `/bin/hostname` in the middle of the printf:

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define command{
        command_name    notify-service-by-sms
        command_line    /usr/bin/printf "%b" "$NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ - `/bin/hostname`: $SERVICEDESC$ ($HOSTNAME$) $SERVICESTATE$ - $SERVICEOUTPUT$\n" | $USER1$/send_sms 2>/dev/null
}

[thewinelake]

Thanks - an interesting idea! However, in the end I just decided to rewrite the sender.

BTW, the hostname doesn't actually take any valuable SMS real-estate, as I'm putting it as the sender ID