I’ve got the following service command set up:

define command{
command_name notify-by-epager
command_line curl “http://127.0.0.1:13004/cgi-bin/sendsms?username=simple&password=simple&to=$CONTACTPAGER$&text=$NOTIFICATIONTYPE$:+$HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$+is+$SERVICESTATE$”
}

The curl command calls a SMS gateway we set up on the Nagios server and is tested and working.

This works fine when the host comes up and reports:

RECOVERY: MyServer/PING is OK

When the service goes down, however, some of the variables are missing resulting in a message like the following:

PROBLEM: MyServer/ is

The $SERVICEDESC$ and $SERVICESTATE$ variables just don’t show up for the party.

Any ideas?

Just added it to our nagios 3 installation and is working fine, subject to minor tweaking on the service names

Cheers

I suspect the ‘–no-check-certificate’ was a temporary problem with Kapow as the SSL cert looks good.

Still, it’s a not a bad idea as one wants to make sure they get their SMS messages.

Thank you (as well) for the scripts, and taking the time to document it – I was looking for a replacement for using twitter/jaiku, which is too unreliable for monitoring… and finding a decent sms gateway seemed to be a pain. Clearly you made my life very easy

My only observation – I had to add ‘–no-check-certificate’ to the wget lines (they failed silently otherwise due to your use of -q).

Thanks
David.

Regards,

Paul.

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