adding new values to nagios.log

[sattanathan]

Hi,

I am in need of finding the notification status(acknowledged) for the service/host alert that are generated and logged in nagios.log .

Please let me know can we add $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ macro to nagios.log

Thanks,
Sattanathan.S

[abrist]

You should get ack in logs if you enabled the logging of external commands in nagios.cfg:

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log_external_commands=1

You should then see a line similar to the following for acks in your nagios.log:

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[1406152012] EXTERNAL COMMAND: ACKNOWLEDGE_HOST_PROBLEM;somehost.tld;2;1;0;Nagios Administrator;TEST

[sattanathan]

Hi Abrist,

Thanks..

But still i need to have the notification status along with the service alert / host alert (as shown in the below example) that are being logged in nagios.log

Original service alert in nagios.log
[1405473494] SERVICE ALERT: somehost ;Net-SNMP - critical processes;CRITICAL;HARD;3;SNMP-PROCS CRITICAL - nagios: OK - 9 processess

my requirement to be in nagios.log
[1405473494] SERVICE ALERT: somehost ;Net-SNMP - critical processes;CRITICAL;HARD;3;SNMP-PROCS CRITICAL - nagios: OK - 9 processess;ACKNOWLEDGE_HOST_PROBLEM;somehost;2;1;0;Nagios Administrator;TEST

Regards,
Sattanathan.S

[abrist]

[1405473494] SERVICE ALERT: somehost ;Net-SNMP - critical processes;CRITICAL;HARD;3;SNMP-PROCS CRITICAL - nagios: OK - 9 processess;ACKNOWLEDGE_HOST_PROBLEM;somehost;2;1;0;Nagios Administrator;TEST

These are technically 2 different metaphysical objects. One is a "Service Alert" while the other is an "External Command". You would have to modify the nagios source to change how this logs.