Why no $MONIT_DESCRIPTION?

[Patrik Israelsson]

Hi,

I stumbled upon monit a while ago and was immediately impressed by its 
functionality and flexibility. I've been meaning to use it in an environment 
where SNMP traps to a central server are used for registering incidents, so 
I'm playing around with the exec functionality to have an external script 
send a trap with the relevant info.

I find it odd that all relevant information is available in the environment 
variables set by monit, EXCEPT the actual description of the event. Why is 
that? There is indeed a short description available, but for 
instance "Resource limit matched" is a bit too brief compared to "'rootfs' 
space usage 12.9% matches resource limit [space usage>8.0%]".

I modified the code to include this and it seems to work fine, but I'm 
wondering if there's a known problem with putting the longer event 
description in an environment variable since it's not included by default in 
monit?

Regards,
Patrik

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