If your nagios.cfg sets enable_environment_macros to 0, that would be the problem.
Otherwise, possibly HOSTADDRESS does not have a value for this service. Have you tried sending just $SERVICESTATE$ instead? (a service notification will always have a value for the macro) Regards Martin Melin On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Jorge Gil <georgy...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all: > > First of all, thank you very much for your support to other users, I have > gone thru hundreds of your emails, but still I couldnt find the solution to > my case... > > I have set up email notifications in nagios, and I do get emails, but I cant > make Nagios send me any information like $hostname$ in the body of the > email. When I tried the typical configuration for nagios, like: > > > # 'notify-service-by-email' command definition > > define command{ > > command_name notify-service-by-email > > command_line /usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios *****\n\nNotification Type: > $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\n\nService: $SERVICEDESC$\nHost: $HOSTALIAS$\nAddress: > $HOSTADDRESS$\nState: $SERVICESTATE$\n\nDate/Time: > $LONGDATETIME$\n\nAdditional Info:\n\n$SERVICEOUTPUT$" | /usr/bin/mail -s > "** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ Service Alert: $HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ is > $SERVICESTATE$ **" $CONTACTEMAIL$ > > } > > > > i wasnt getting emails. > > Now a simplified version of the command: > > > > # 'notify-service-by-email' command definition > > define command{ > > command_name notify-service-by-email > > command_line printf "%b" "$HOSTADDRESS$" | /usr/bin/mail -s Subject_of_email > my_email_address > > } > > does send me emails, but it doesnt translate the hostaddress, i get justĀ a > dollar sign in the body of the email. > > I have tried to put hostaddress in small letters, with and without quotation > marks, redone all the possible files that call the alert... and I am lost. > > What can be wrong, please? How can I make Nagios translate those variables > into the actual information they contain? (for the service checks, they > actually work, I see the state change in the Nagios webserver, individually > for all the hosts that I set up) > > Thanks a lot, > > Jorge > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community > Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support > A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy > Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers > http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Nagios-users mailing list > Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users > ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting > any issue. > ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null