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Hi everybody, i made a little script which: 1. Send notifications to a text file which has name of YYYYMMDDHHMMSSNNNNNN of his creation 2. Verify the file and if it's OK a copy is made (file_OK) in the same folder else it send us a mail Here's the script #!/bin/bash Date=$(date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S%N) name...

Which user were you testing this as? Does the nagios user have access to write to the temp files? Could you also list how it is defined in the service and command definitions? I now used the macros $NAGIOS_HOSTSTATE, $NAGIOS_HOSTNAME and now everything works fine. Thank you very much for your help !!

Hi everybody, i would like to call a script from misccommands.cfg. This script send notifications infos to a txt file, which is named according to YearMonthDayHourMinutesSecondsNanoseconds, and then this same file is copied in the same folder but with OK at the end of file. For services the code is ...

Yes,
Nconf didn't modify the contacts.cfg file,
so i did it manually
and
Eureka! the notifications are sent to a text file as i want to.
All is good.
Thanks to everybody

Thanks to everybody,
the command works, i don't know how but it works.
Now the second phase of the project is to make an agent that will search and find in our text file the intresting datas and put it in a database.
Thanks for your help.

What is the purpose of the macros at the end: I copy these macros from email notification command but i remove it and i try without it. The problem is to understand which is the right solution to send the notifications to a text file and not only to an email ? Because the log file is too big and i ...

How are you calling this script? As an event handler, or some other way? It looks like $HOSTNAME$ is the only populated macro I enter this script in my NConf plugin. It is saved in /etc/nagios/global/misccommand.cfg like this: define command{ command name notify-host-by-txt command_line /bin/echo -...

Thanks for your help, i enter these commands in my misccommands file: /bin/echo -e "HOST ALERT:\n\n Notification Type: $ NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\n Host: $HOSTNAME$\n State: $HOSSTATE$\n Address: $HOSTADDRESS$\n Info: $HOSTOUTPUT$\n Date/Time: $LONGDATETIME$\n" >> /tmp/notif_text.txt "HOST A...

No i wish Nagios send notifications to a temporary text file leavin the deafault email solution running. I put this in misccommands Does it work? what i have to put instead of $CONTACTEMAIL$ ? Thanks. "HOST ALERT:\n \n Notification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\n Host: $HOSTNAME$\n State: $HOSTSTATE...

Hi everybody, I'm from France and excuse my english, I'm currently in a job training and my boss asked me to do a project. He wants that Nagios communicate his notifications towards an external software of IT asset management written in Java whiwh has a MySQL database. The goal is doing statistics a...