Nagios flooding outside email addresses
Assaf Flatto
nagios at flatto.net
Wed Mar 14 10:49:35 CET 2012
What is your definition for rechecks and notification intervals ,and
first and last notifications ( see service and service escalation
definitions )?
Also how many issue does your system has that are un handled that nagios
is producing so many alerts ?
On 13/03/12 13:34, Jeremy Gibbs wrote:
> I have sendmail setup to use our smtp server as a forwarder. This has
> been working great so far. The only issue I am seeing is, outside
> email addresses such as a cell number @vtext.com <http://vtext.com> is
> having messages sent to it several times a second; until Verizon
> finally rate limits the messages. This in turn queues up the
> messages, and a large number come through again. This does NOT happen
> with any internal email addresses. If I check the mail log, I can see
> Nagios sending the message several times a second to only outside
> email addresses and only once to internal email addresses.
>
>
> I am not sure what the issue is.
>
> I will give you a sample of my config
>
>
> define contact{
> name generic-contact ; The
> name of this contact template
> service_notification_period 24x7 ;
> service notifications can be sent anytime
> host_notification_period 24x7 ; host
> notifications can be sent anytime
> service_notification_options w,u,c,r,f,s ; send
> notifications for all service states, flapping events, and scheduled
> downtime events
> host_notification_options d,u,r,f,s ; send
> notifications for all host states, flapping events, and scheduled
> downtime events
> service_notification_commands notify-service-by-email ; send
> service notifications via email
> host_notification_commands notify-host-by-email ; send
> host notifications via email
> register 0 ; DONT
> REGISTER THIS DEFINITION - ITS NOT A REAL CONTACT, JUST A TEMPLATE!
> }
>
> define contact{
> contact_name guys-cell
> use generic-contact
> alias John Doe
> email xxx8777xxx at vtext.com <mailto:xxx8777xxx at vtext.com>
> }
>
>
> define contactgroup{
> contactgroup_name network-admin
> alias Switches and networking admins
> members guys-cell
> }
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
> --
> Jeremy L. Gibbs
> Systems Administrator
> Utica College
> Integrated Information Technology Services
> (315) 223-2383
>
>
>
>
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