Notifications to a Contact Group

[aravindreddy114]

I have create 15 contacts and added them to a contact group. I included this contact group in all the service checks.

In the TO section of email notifications that i receive from nagios, i am not seeing list of people in the contact group. I only see my name.
What should i do to see the names of all the people in the contact group, when i receive any alert

[slansing]

You will not see other peoples email addresses from a notification email, this is a privacy thing as emails are sent out from nagios to all of the contact addresses.

[aravindreddy114]

Is there a way where we can change this, that way people will know who is getting the mails
Thanks Araivnd

[slansing]

Not easily, you could create a few custom notification handlers and hand include each contact's email address in the mail body, however you would need to manually change this whenever you added or removed contacts.

[aravindreddy114]

How can i create custom notification handlers

[abrist]

You can use the macro: $NOTIFICATIONRECIPIENTS$
This will show the short (display) names of the contacts associated with the object.

1. Go to --> Admin --> Notification Management.
2. Add the following to the body of the service and host emails:

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Contacts: %contacts%

3. Now go to --> Configure --> Core Config Manager --> Commands. Search for "notification_handler". Add the following to the end of the command for the two commands (xi_host_notification_handler and xi_service _notification_handler):

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--contacts="$NOTIFICATIONRECIPIENTS$" 

Save out and apply configuration.

Now your emails should include a list of the contacts also on the object.

[aravindreddy114]

Thanks

[abrist]

No problem. This works for any core macro (http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/macrolist.html). Just map the macro to a name and put it at the end of the xi notification handlers:

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--<name>="<$macro$>"

Then add the name (with bookended percents) to the notification message:

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Whatever: %<name>%

Note: This only works with XI notifications, not core. Core notifications would use just the core macro and would have to be embedded in the body portion of the core notification handler.

[aravindreddy114]

It there a way to edit the Macro NOTIFICATIONRECIPIENTS

[abrist]

No, not without altering the Nagios core source. It is a built-in macro.