Icinga not expanding contactemail variable

Question

I'd like to define a couple contacts that make use of the user variables out of resources.cfg like this:

define contact {
    contact_name                                      XXX
    use                                               generic-contact
    alias                                             YYY
    email                                             $USER100$
}

The variables exist but when I try to make use of $CONTACTEMAIL$ I get back the literal string of USER100.

What am I missing here? I've tried a couple different methods of quoting the $USER100$ both in the contact definition and the command itself.

Answer 1

According to the macro list, macros are only valid in the context of host/service checks, notifications, event handlers, and performance data.

In short: you can't.