How to make nagios send me brief and informative alerts?

[t3dus]

How do I make nagios send me brief and informative alerts via sms? The current long winded ones get broken up into multiple messages which is super annoying because I get multiple messages regarding a single outage.

I want something like the folks talked about here

What I don't understand is if I was to add this code to commands.cfg how I get certain notifications to use that vs the long winded alert.

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define command{
        command_name    notify-host-by-sms
        command_line    /usr/bin/printf "%.120s" "$HOSTALIAS$ is $HOSTSTATE$" |/usr/local/bin/gnokii --sendsms $CONTACTPAGER$ -r
        }


define command{
        command_name    notify-service-by-sms
        command_line    /usr/bin/printf "%.120s" "$HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ is $SERVICESTATE$" | /usr/local/bin/gnokii --sendsms $CONTACTPAGER$ -r
        }

[scottwilkerson]

You would just change the host_notification_commands and service_notification_commands for the contact you want to receive these to notify-host-by-sms and notify-service-by-sms


https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... ml#contact

[t3dus]

I did that in the contacts.cfg file but it isn't sending anything to my phone via text.

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define contact{
        contact_name                    mattphone
        alias                           Matt
        service_notification_commands   notify-service-by-sms
        host_notification_commands      notify-host-by-sms
        email               REMOVED NUMBER FOR PRIVACY@email.uscc.net
        pager                REMOVED NUMBER FOR PRIVACY@email.uscc.net
        }

and added "mattphone" to the contact groups.

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define contactgroup{
        contactgroup_name       admins
        alias                   Nagios Administrators
        members                 sysadmins,gldgmail,gidalerts,bp,mattphone
        }

[scottwilkerson]

Have you tried testing these from the command line to see if the command works?

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/usr/bin/printf "%.120s" "host_alias is CRITICAL" |/usr/local/bin/gnokii --sendsms 'REMOVED NUMBER FOR PRIVACY@email.uscc.net' -r

[t3dus]

Oh I see the issue. it comes back with the error

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-bash: /usr/local/bin/gnokii: No such file or directory

Do I have to use gnokii or what do you suggest I use?

[scottwilkerson]

Oh I see the issue. it comes back with the error

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-bash: /usr/local/bin/gnokii: No such file or directory

Do I have to use gnokii or what do you suggest I use?

I don't even know what gnokii is....

If this is a email to text notification, I would suggest setting them up like your email commands

[t3dus]

Ok I got it working. This is what I did..

I change the command to the following

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define command{
        command_name    notify-host-by-sms
        command_line    /usr/bin/printf "%b" "$HOSTALIAS$ is $HOSTSTATE$" |/usr/bin/mail -s --sendsms $CONTACTPAGER$
        }

define command{
        command_name    notify-service-by-sms
        command_line    /usr/bin/printf "%b" "$HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ is $SERVICESTATE$" |/usr/bin/mail -s --sendsms $CONTACTPAGER$
        }

My next question is how can I get it so it doesn't text me "S:--sendsms"

[scottwilkerson]

change it to this

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define command{
        command_name    notify-host-by-sms
        command_line    /usr/bin/printf "%b" "$HOSTALIAS$ is $HOSTSTATE$" |/usr/bin/mail $CONTACTPAGER$
        }

define command{
        command_name    notify-service-by-sms
        command_line    /usr/bin/printf "%b" "$HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ is $SERVICESTATE$" |/usr/bin/mail $CONTACTPAGER$
        }

the -s flag is defining the subject

[t3dus]

So I narrowed it down with your commands to where it says

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S: M:Host/keyword is critical

but is there a way to ditch the "S:" and "M:"

[scottwilkerson]

but is there a way to ditch the "S:" and "M:"

My guess is your mail to sms provider is adding them to the message, where:

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S: == Subject
M: == Message