Your Mail Command

[Andreas Ericsson]

Josiah Ritchie wrote:
> Just out of dull curiosity and wondering if I can learn something or get
> some good ideas for improvement, I'm wondering if everyone wouldn't mind
> sharing the command they use to send email from nagios out to others.
> 

We do it something like this:

notify -m "$CONTACTEMAIL$" -p "$CONTACTPAGER$" -u "$CONTACTNAME$" -t 
"$NOTIFICATIONTYPE$" HOSTNAME="$HOSTNAME$" SERVICEDESC="$SERVICEDESC$"

and so on.

It's really quite nifty, because it lets us use skins to format the 
email in a much prettier way than pasting an entire message body in the 
configuration file. It would be simple to select a skin of a particular 
language based on locale settings. The skin-file is selected based on 
notification type and whether it's an email or pager notification (it 
handles both in one go). Each user can also have their own message look 
if they like, without specifying a load of different and annoyingly long 
notification commands.

> I'll start:
>  /usr/bin/printf "Subject: ** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ alert -
> $HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ is $SERVICESTATE$\n **\n %b" "***** Nagios 
> *****\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\n\nService:
> $SERVICEDESC$\nHost: $HOSTALIAS$\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nState:
> $SERVICESTATE$\n\nDate/Time: $DATETIME$\n\nAdditional Info:\n\n$OUTPUT$" |
> /usr/sbin/ssmtp $CONTACTEMAIL$
> 
> This is mostly the default modified so that I can use ssmtp, a simple ssmtp
> daemon allowing me to send email to others, but it does not receive
> anything. Configuration is also incredibly simple. I use it on a number of
> my Gentoo boxes so they can talk back to me. I moved the Subject line into
> the first line of the body of the message to be compatible with ssmtp.
> 
> JSR/
> 
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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
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