As it turns out, getting long output working was a little easier than I anticipated. The UI turns "\n" into "<BR>". So I'm able to bundle the long output into the standard plugin output. All I had to do in the end was pass $LONGSERVICEOUTPUT$ with $SERVICEOUTPUT$ like this:
define command{ command_name submit_check_result command_line /usr/local/nagios/libexec/eventhandlers/submit_check_result $HOSTNAME$ '$SERVICEDESC$' $SERVICESTATE$ '$SERVICEOUTPUT$' '$LONGSERVICEOUTPUT$' } Then I copied submit_check_result script from the Distributed Monitoring Doc that's on the web, and modified it accordingly: ...snip... case "$3" in OK) return_code=0 ;; WARNING) return_code=1 ;; CRITICAL) return_code=2 ;; UNKNOWN) return_code=-1 ;; esac if [[ $5 ]] then LONGOUT="$4\n$5" else LONGOUT=$4 fi printf "%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\n" "$1" "$2" "$return_code" "$LONGOUT" | /usr/local/nagios/bin/send_nsca -H myhost.com -c /usr/local/nagios/etc/send_nsca.cfg ...snip... Just don't ask me how to turn this back into $LONGSERVICEOUTPUT$ once it's on the master Nagios server. Aaron Mills Systems Administrator Return Path, Inc. http://www.returnpath.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ 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