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Is there anyway to modify the downtime notification alert?
Regard
PO

What about it would you like to modify? This is a very general question, of which many paths could be taken.

Here the notification email :
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***** Nagios Monitor XI Alert *****

Notification Type: DOWNTIMESTART
Host: ASL_ESX_NODE-2
State: UP
Address: 10.10.20.209
Info: OK - 10.10.20.209: rta 0.561ms, lost 0%

Date/Time: Wed May 7 08:02:58 EDT 2014
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Can we change the notification type from DOWNTIMESTART to something else ?

Regard
PO

With the built-in macros that would not be possible. However you could write a wrapper script or an entirely different sender, that would change that output.

povachon wrote:Here the notification email :
____________________________________________
***** Nagios Monitor XI Alert *****

Notification Type: DOWNTIMESTART
Host: ASL_ESX_NODE-2
State: UP
Address: 10.10.20.209
Info: OK - 10.10.20.209: rta 0.561ms, lost 0%

Date/Time: Wed May 7 08:02:58 EDT 2014
_____________________________________________
Can we change the notification type from DOWNTIMESTART to something else ?

Regard
PO

Nagios has a good number of variables (aka macros) that you can include in notifications.

Check out the following links.

The following 3 cover custom variables and the variables built in to Nagios.

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/ ... tvars.html
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/macros.html
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/macrolist.html <~~~THIS ONE IS SUPER USEFUL!!!

Blog Post about customizing nagios email notifications
http://techpain.blogspot.com/2010/08/na ... email.html

Hope this helps

-Nick

Thanks for the help Technick! I'd agree, you would want to include one of the custom macros which are already present. If you are looking for something that is not listed there, let us know!