Looking for something hard coded in a notification

[Chaffy]

Forgive my ignorance, I'm new to the Nagios world. We have notifications setup that are sent out via sms. In these notifications there is a line of text that we can't seem to find to edit. It is in the Info: section. How can I view what the $HOSTOUTPUT contains?

[tgriep]

Here is the definition of the $HOSTOUTPUT$ macro
"The first line of text output from the last host check (i.e. "Ping OK")."

If you want to see more Nagios Macros and there definitions, take a look at this link.
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... olist.html
If you want to change the information / macros in the Notification Emails, take a look at this guide that has examples on how to do that.
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... iables.pdf

[Chaffy]

Thank you for the post tgriep! I found the first link in my search before posting this question. That second link is very helpful. What I'm seeing in the text notifications is Info: Server1 OK but the Server1 is not the actual box the notification is for. I assumed this got hard coded into $HOSTOUTPUT$ somehow. Where does $HOSTOUTPUT$ get it's information? I may not be asking this the right way, most likely because this is a foreign language to me. Thanks again tgriep!

[tgriep]

The $HOSTOUTPUT$ should get it's data from the MYSQL database and that data is mirrored to the status.dat file.
Maybe the MYSQL database needs to be repaired.
Login to the Nagios server as root and follow this process to repair the system.

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service nagios stop
killall -9 nagios
service ndo2db stop
mysqlcheck -f -r -u root -pnagiosxi --databases nagios
service ndo2db start
service nagios start

Try that and see if the notifications have the correct information.
If not, we will have to see the notification that is generated and the System Profile.
Login to the Nagios XI GUI using a web browser.
Click the "Admin" > "System Profile" Menu
Click the "Download Profile" button
Save the profile.zip file and post or PM it to us.