Is there a variable for host description for Email Alerts?

[mberkley]

In Nagios14, is there an way to include the description of the host in the email alerts?

In your documentation you have:
%host% The host name.
%hostaddress% The address of the host. Usually an IP address or FQDN.
%hostalias% An alias for the host. Usually the same as %hostname%.

But there isn't a "alias" section available in the Host Management


We would like to see the description get sent out in the email alerts so we can actually know not only the host name, but perhaps what the server actually is, or is affecting.

Thank You.

[sreinhardt]

Description is actually entered into the config as alias, so $HOSTALIAS$ or %hostalias% should do the trick for you!