I actually encountered the same problem myself,
my immediate thoughts were
a) have nagios pass it via a macro (and set it as a 'reply-to' in the email)
b) have the command look it up via the reading the configuration
On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 13:42:37 +0800, [email protected]
wrote:
> [Previously sent to nagios-users]
>
> Is there any way to get Nagios to pass along arbitrary messages
> to all contacts for a particular host or service?
>
> We've set up alerts via email and SMS, using a system that generates
> a unique address for each host+service pair. Contacts can reply to
> these with commands to acknowledge the problem or suspend further
> checks for a period of time, either by email or SMS.
>
> This works pretty well, but it seems the only way to broadcast a
> message to everyone else is by acknowledging a problem. This makes
> 2-way communication pretty tricky, as once a problem is acknowledged
> or goes away, we can't keep talking about it.
>
> Any ideas for how to deal with this? Having not looked at the
> Nagios source in any detail, I'm not sure how difficult it would
> be to add an extra command similar to "Comment" but to also send
> the message to all contacts. This is probably the preferred way
> to handle it. Alternatively, an option to just make all comments
> added be sent to the contacts as well could be useful.
>
> Thoughts, anyone? Just wanted to check if anybody has either
> already implemented something along these lines (or considered
> doing so) before I start hacking.
>
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