Notification problem (3rd attempt)

[Ben Whaley]

A couple things you could try:

Check the permissions on both /bin/mail and /usr/bin/printf. Perhaps the
Nagios user doesn't have permission to execute one or both of these programs
and thus cannot send the notifications? Try becoming the Nagios user (su -
nagios) or add yourself to the Nagios group and run the command from
misccommands.cfg again.

Try defining some other type of notification command. For example, instead
of the "/usr/bin/printf "%b" ... in misccommands.cfg for the
notify-phone-by-email definition, run something like "echo $DATETIME$ >
/tmp/somefile" and see if /tmp/somefile exists and contains $DATETIME$ when
you see the notification message in the logs.

Regards,
Ben Whaley


On 2/18/04 8:57 AM, "nagios at acmecargo.com" <nagios at acmecargo.com> wrote:

> Does anyone at least have an idea for me please?
> 
> I am having a problem getting my notifications working. I see the service
> notification go through on the log but I never see the message being sent
> through the outgoing mail log file nor do I get the email of course.
> Feb  6 17:39:15 src at sysmon nagios: SERVICE NOTIFICATION:
> contactname;temp_probe1;Central DC temp;WARNING;notify-phone-by-email;Temp
> Warning: Probe 3 = 71.1 F
> 
> I can send a message manually simulating what is in my misccommands.cfg.
> The actual line says:
> /usr/bin/printf "%b $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ $SERVICEDESC$ $HOSTALIAS$
> $SERVICESTATE$ $DATETIME$ Info:$OUTPUT$" | /bin/mail -s ALERT $CONTACTEMAIL$
> I try the following:
> /usr/bin/printf "This is a test" | /bin/mail -s "Test Subject" user at domain.com
> and I see it process in my mail log and I receive the email.
> 
> Why is it that Nagios is logging the Service Notification but it is never
> submitted to the local sendmail daemon?
> 
> Dylan
> 
> 
> 
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