Changing Display Name

Marc Powell marc at ena.com
Mon Sep 21 20:44:26 CEST 2009


On Sep 21, 2009, at 12:43 PM, Stephen H. Dawson wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We currently have:
> Nagios [blah at blah.com]
>
>
> ...going on our email notifications for the FROM address.  We are  
> thinking of changing the "Nagios" part.  Where is this changed,  
> please?

This is handled outside of nagios. Changing /etc/passwd is simplest.

>  Also, is this a global thing, or can we set it up to have a  
> different display name for certain email recipients?

It's effectively global. It can be done but it's not trivial. You  
might want to search for 'notification' on one of the nagios exchanges  
to see if something suitable for you already exists.

--
Marc

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