Notify by SMS

[t3dus]

I created a new command to notify me via SMS of alerts and I'm trying to keep the notifications short but sweet. I've done this with core before and it works great however when I try the same with NagiosXI I only receive stuff like "DEV1 is up" which tells me NOTHING about the actual problem.

I've spent over an hour already trying different variables and still haven't found one that sends me the actual problem with the service or host.

Can somebody point out to me what I'm doing wrong...

Current configs below

config1.PNG

However when I get a service notification it only gives me this.

Screenshot_20190905-131405_Messages.jpg

Totally not useful! I want to know what the actual problem is!

[scottwilkerson]

Your notify-host-by-sms command doesn't have the $HOSTOUTPUT$ macro, so if you are testing with a host it is only going to display the info you have in the command.

[t3dus]

Your notify-host-by-sms command doesn't have the $HOSTOUTPUT$ macro, so if you are testing with a host it is only going to display the info you have in the command.

The test I showed was with a service. Doesn't show me the information I want to see. I'll see what adding the $HOSTOUTPUT$ does for me though.

[scottwilkerson]

Your notify-host-by-sms command doesn't have the $HOSTOUTPUT$ macro, so if you are testing with a host it is only going to display the info you have in the command.

The test I showed was with a service. Doesn't show me the information I want to see. I'll see what adding the $HOSTOUTPUT$ does for me though.

If it was a service, then you added the the host notification command in the service spot on the contact

It should be like this

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define contact {
....
    host_notification_commands       notify-host-by-sms
    service_notification_commands    notify-service-by-sms
....
}

[t3dus]

Can you explain how to do that in NagiosXI via the interface. I'm not manually editing config files directly like I do in Nagios Core

Thanks

[scottwilkerson]

CCM -> Contacts -> Edit Contact -> Alert Settings Tab

Manage Host Notification Commands -> Select notify-host-by-sms
Close

Manage Service Notification Commands -> Select notify-service-by-sms
Close

Save

Apply Configuration

This is how you add/change notification handlers

[t3dus]

Oh I've already done that...

[t3dus]

Adding $HOSTOUTPUT$ just gives me more useless information.

Screenshot_20190905-224901_Messages.jpg

I'm expecting to see something like this..

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Notification Type: PROBLEM

Service: Drive C: Disk Usage
Host: Dev1
Address: 192.168.1.75
State: WARNING

but in a nice clean version for mobile. If I send the e-mails using the standard template to my phone it gets broken up into two different messages which is super annoying.

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[scottwilkerson]

Again, this like the $HOSTOUTPUT$ is being displayed on the service notification handler

Can you send a system profile from Admin -> System Profile and I can take a look

Thanks

[t3dus]

I have attached the profile.

This is an older version of Nagios XI Version 5.4.0 to be exact. We tried to upgrade it but it always fails and we haven't got around to building an entire new nagios server.