disabling e-mail notifications for nagiosadmin account

[Giorgio Zarrelli]

Leave the contact, remove the email address

Ciao,

Giorgio

Il giorno 05/dic/2011, alle ore 21:51, "Paul M. Dubuc" <work at paul.dubuc.org> ha scritto:

> Kaplan, Andrew H. wrote:
>> Hi there --
>> 
>> We are running Nagios 3.3.1, and have a two contacts set up for the e-mail
>> notifications. One of the contacts
>> is the nagiosadmin user. This is the user account that was first setup during
>> the initial installation of the application.
>> 
>> When the account was set up it was configured with the e-mail address of one
>> of our network administrators.
>> 
>> A second account was set up that was based on the administrator's login
>> account along with his e-mail address.
>> When notifications are sent out, he gets two notifications for each event due
>> to both contacts having the same
>> e-mail address.
>> 
>> We want to prevent the e-mail notifications being sent to the nagiosadmin
>> account with the administrator getting
>> only one notification per event as the intended result. One thought was to set
>> up a dummy account on the Nagios
>> server as a solution, and another idea was to set up a flag in the
>> contacts.cfg file, but we are not sure what the
>> would be the correct syntax for the latter.
>> 
>> What would be the best solution here?
>> 
>> Thanks.
> 
> nagiosadmin doesn't need to be a notification contact.  You can remove it from 
> any contact lists in your contacts.cfg.   If you want that user to still be 
> able to see everything and run all commands from the Nagios display you can 
> put it in the "authorized_for_*" lists in your cgi.cfg if its not already there.
> 
> Paul Dubuc
> 
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