Re: Description mail alert - Arguments not passed

[Martin Pala]

Hi,

you can customize the message format this way: 
http://mmonit.com/monit/documentation/monit.html#Message-format 

Regards,
Martin


> On 06 Mar 2015, at 15:11, Kizito Porta Balanyà <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Yes, it can be done with your solution and sometimes it is ok, but in
> this case I need to modify an external script. I don't like it. What
> Will I do in the next release, modify it again ?
> 
> As idea, why don't add a new entry parameters below path in the output
> table? For example:
> path -> /usr/local/nagios_plugins/check_dirsize11.sh
> params -> -d /cygdrive/c/PROGRA~1/SAP/ SAPSPrint/Logs -w 5000000 -c 10000000
> 
> Thanks a lot for your time.
> 
> 
> 
> 2015-03-06 13:27 GMT+01:00 Jan-Henrik Haukeland <address@hidden>:
>> 
>>> On 06 Mar 2015, at 12:44, Kizito Porta Balanyà <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> When I receive the alerts , the description doesn't contain the arguments
>>> 
>>> My monit config:
>>> 
>>> check program checkSize_SapSprintLogs with path
>>> "/usr/local/nagios_plugins/check_dirsize11.sh -d
>>> /cygdrive/c/PROGRA~1/SAP/SAPSPrint/Logs -w 5000000 -c 10000000"
>>> 
>>> The alert description:
>>>     Description: '/usr/local/nagios_plugins/check_dirsize11.sh'
>>> failed with exit status (1) -- 6939796 KB - warning
>>> 
>>> What I would like (arguments added):
>>>     Description: '/usr/local/nagios_plugins/check_dirsize11.sh -d
>>> /cygdrive/c/PROGRA~1/SAP/SAPSPrint/Logs -w 5000000 -c 10000000' failed
>>> with exit status (1) -- 6939796 KB - warning
>>> 
>>> I have something misconfigured? Is it possible?
>> 
>> No, only the program name is used, no arguments. However, why not have your 
>> program write to stdout or stderr this information? _Then_ it will be part 
>> of the alert. That is, instead of having the program write '6939796 KB - 
>> warning’ have it write ‘Warning: 6939796 KB is inside the range [5GB..10GB]’ 
>> or whatever it is you need.
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