Sendpage doesn't work with nagios

Russell Adams RLAdams at AdamsInfoServ.Com
Wed Nov 2 17:44:59 CET 2005


FYI, I have two nagios systems using sendpage for paging.

Could it be environmental? Does the nagios user have access to
/etc/snpp.conf?

Russell

On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 11:15:30AM -0500, Tao Yaoning wrote:
> Hi, all
> 
> I configured nagios 2.0b4 to monitor my network. It works very fine. So I
> try to configure sendpage to send me pager information.
> I installed sendpage on my nagios server, and I can use command to send
> pager by manually.
> /usr/bin/snpp -n -m "test information" testpager
> and receive the message "test information"
> 
> I defined testpager information on sendpage.cf <http://sendpage.cf>, so here
> I just use character alias "testpager" to instead my really pager number
> 
> 
> So, I configure nagios contact information and set pager as "testpager",
> notify command is notify-by-sendpage
> notifi-by-sendpage looks like
> /usr/bin/snpp -n -m "$SERVICEOUTPUT$\n$LONGDATE$" $CONTACTPAGER$
> 
> I think when nagios notify me with sendpage should use command like
> /usr/bin/snpp -n -m "whatever information" testpager
> 
> But my nagios never send pager information out. I check the log files, I
> seems nagios never run the command?
> the permission of /usr/bin/snpp is 755
> 
> Anybody can give me some ideas?
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