Hostalias

[def103]

I'm trying to change some options in the alert configuration.

In Nagios you can enter the host Alias information such as for example:

host_name wsus01
alias Microsoft Wsus Update server
address wsus.domain.local

Now i want in my host and service alert the Alias in the alert e-mail or sms.

I tried to following macro but that didn't work: $HOSTALIAS$

My command to send the e-mail is like this:

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/usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios *****\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\n\nService: $SERVICEDESC$\nHost: $HOSTALIAS$\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nState: $SERVICESTATE$\n\nDate/Time: $LONGDATETIME$\n\nAdditional Info:\n\n$SERVICEOUTPUT$" | /bin/mail -s "** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ Service Alert: $HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ is $SERVICESTATE$ **" $CONTACTEMAIL$

Instead of the $HOSTALIAS$ is just displays the hostname.
I'm running Nagios 3.2.3

Is it possible to display the alias in the notification ?

[bushi]

It should work exactly this way, but imho there is currently a bug in nagios which results in old data within the hostalias field. (http://support.nagios.com/forum/viewtop ... lias#p6218)

Try shut down nagios, delete retention.dat and restart nagios.

[def103]

Try shut down nagios, delete retention.dat and restart nagios.

I tried this and it looks like this works now

Thanks for your support.