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BTW....its not a plugin or a notification that I wan't this for.

I want the macro substitution to happen in the host.notes_url and/or host.action_url links that are displayed in the extinfo.cgi when it is displaying details about a host.

OwenC

Eric, I think I understand what you are saying. To put it another way then...It is the Nagios process that is doing the substitution of the macro values. The CGIs are only a front end that display information that is requested from the Nagios process. In order for the Nagios process to know which ob...

@elyod, Thanks for the response. Technically Nagios does know who is logged in because it grabs that from the "REMOTE_USER" environment variable, see: https://fossies.org/dox/nagios-4.1.1/cgiauth_8c_source.html#l00064 Remember that it shows this in the GUI as "Logged in as <http_usern...

I have a scenario where I want to use the $CONTACTADDRESSv$ macros to build a URL for the action_url host directive. The $CONTACTADDRESSv$ should be based on the contact currently logged into the CGI web interface.

This doesn't work. Is there a way to do this?

OwenC