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G'day Guys,

Nagios xi 2012R1.1

Configure -> More Options -> My Account Settings -> Notification Messages -> Email

Where can I get a list of available variables to use? I'd like to use %hostgroup% but it doesn't work.

Is it easy to add variables under the hood of Nagios xi?

Regards,

John Hobbins
Australia

These are setup in the commands xi_host_notification_handler & xi_service_notification_handler

If you go to Configure -> CCM -> Commands
In the search type notification_handler you will see all the items passed in, for example You can add more to the commands like With this, you would have a new item available %hostgroups%, the part left of the = becomes the macro name, you can use valid Nagios macros to be populated for the right portion, a list is available here
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/macrolist.html

Thanks mate.

Works a treat for e-mail but not SMS. SMS works fine otherwise.

I've added the variable to the beginning of the "Host Alert Message" field. So it's not a length issue.

Strangely, when I add random text to the field it doesn't appear in the SMS on my phone. E.g.

Customer: %hostgroup% %host% %type% (%hoststate%) %hostoutput% Addr: %hostaddress% Time: %datetime% Nagios URL: %xiserverurl%

"Customer: %hostgroup%" doesn't come through. It's as if it's not reading any change to the field.

Hope I've made myself clear.

Did you make these changes on the "Mobile text" tab of Notification Messages?

G'day Scott,

Made the changes under Notification Messages - SMS. See attached screenshot.

Do you have a Multi-Tech iSMS modem? if not the changes need to be made on the Mobile Text Tab

Yep. Got a Multi-tech modem.

SMS works with the default message. But I can't seem to customise it. Very odd.

Yep, you led me to a bug... Thanks.

Attached is a fixed component, you can re-install through Admin -> Manage Components

Thanks again mate.

FYI...

I did notice that Manage Updates -> Check for Updates

Status field for "Multi-Tech iSMS Integration" is blank.

jhobbins wrote:Status field for "Multi-Tech iSMS Integration" is blank.

This can happen if you have a version of the component before it had a version number added...

The newest version of the component can be found here
http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagi ... s/isms.zip