Passive checks via Exim

[Matt Johnson]

 --- Horvath Tamas <zsitfa at axelero.hu> wrote: 
> Hi List Members!
> 
> I run Nagios 1.2 on Debian 3.1. It seems to me, that
> I'll have some type of
> checks which can send their results via E-Mail. My
> MTA is Exim!

Yes, I did this last week with some success. Go into
/etc/exim4/conf.d

My config file is split into, so I go into the /router
directory. Find 400-exim4-config_system_aliases file
and uncomment "user = list" and "group = mail". Also
uncomment pipe_transport = address_pipe

Now go into /etc/aliases and put a nagios alias to
pipe mail to nagios to a command.

You can pipe to the command:

nagios |
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/eventhandlers/submit_check_result


which expects arguments after the command (the host,
service, code "0" etc.

It's all in the docs for passive checks, freshness
checks and volatile services.

I had to chmod 777 /var/run/nagios/nagios.cmd every
time I restarted nagios to get this to work.


All the best. Ask more questions if needed.

--
Matt


	
	
		
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