Email Notifications

[Richard Savage]

Yes

Just change the email commands so they look something like this:

command_line    /usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios *****\n\nNotificatio$... | /usr/bin/esmtp - C ~/esmtprc me at outsideemailaddress - f me at internalemailaddress -s "** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ Host...

All this command is doing is printing out the relevant data and pipeing it to the esmtp program.  I have left the -s in at the end, but not sure if esmtp uses this as an option.  use man esmtp to look at the manual.

The way i tested notofications, was to take a host you are monitring and add a temporay firewall rule  on that box.  Nagios will then see it as down and should send a notification.

Hope this helps

Rich




kellyjackie at eircom.net wrote:
>
> I am dissapointed with the way in which my questions have been recieved here. It seems like only experts are welcome. How is anybody supposed to learn. There was once a day when you all were beginning too.I have heard so much about the linux community but im not experiencing that at all.
>
> So after almost unsubscribing from this mailing list Im going to give it another chance.
> Heres my question:
>
> I have set up Nagios 3 monitoring some machines and their services. I am now trying to set up email notifications.
> I have installed the following on the linux box:
> eSMTP- run
> procmail
> I can send emails with the following line:
> echo "test" | /usr/bin/esmtp - C ~/esmtprc me at outsideemailaddress - f me at internalemailaddress
> This sends me an email from our mail server. However when i try:
> mailx -s tacos myemail at email.com
> this just hangs.
>
> The commands.cfg files contains:
> # 'notify-host-by-email' command definition
> define command{
>         command_name    notify-host-by-email
>         command_line    /usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios *****\n\nNotificatio$... | /usr/bin/mailx -s "** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ Host...
>         }
>
> # 'notify-service-by-email' command definition
> define command{
>         command_name    notify-service-by-email
>         command_line    /usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios *****\n\nNotificatio$... | /usr/bin/mailx -s "** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ Host
>         }
>
>
> Can i make modifications to these commands to use esmtp and not mailx or any suggestions to getting mailx working with eSMTP.
> Also how can you force nagios to send email notifications for testing.
>
> Thanks for any advice
>
>
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