nagios and sendmail

[Edward Ford]

I am still unable to send email from nagios to myself.. Any ideas would be
appreciated. I am using :::


# 'notify-by-email' command definition
> define command{
>         command_name    notify-by-email
>         command_line    echo "Message" | mail -s "subject"
email at domain.com

         }
This is what I have put into the misccommands.cfg for notify-by-email. I am
getting no email. When I type in
Echo "Message" | mail -s "subject" email at domain.com from the linux command
prompt I do get my e-mail which is coming from a different server. The linux
sendmail looks like it is working but for some reason or other nagios is not
sending email alerts. I am not sure what is going on. I believe that the
contacts are correct and service_notification_commands point to
notify_by_email, I enabled notifications within services with
notifications_enabled 1 (just in case). I also changed the time with
notification_interval 120


What am I missing..

Thanks;


-----Original Message-----
From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of Marc Powell
Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 3:24 PM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] nagios and sendmail

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Edward Ford
> Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 2:01 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] nagios and sendmail
>
> These are examples that are indeed in the configuration files.. If you
can
> read them..

For each contact you specify two notification options --

(http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/xodtemplate.html#contact)

host_notification_commands      command_name
service_notification_commands   command_name

Using my examples below they would look like --

define contact{
        contact_name                    example
        alias                           Real Name
        service_notification_period     24x7
        host_notification_period        24x7
        service_notification_options    c,r
        host_notification_options       d,r
        service_notification_commands   service-notify-by-email
        host_notification_commands      host-notify-by-email
        email                           email at example.foo
        }

The command definitions themselves are extremely simple, consisting of
only two commands chained together. You have 'echo' and you have 'mail'.
Everything else is just filler that's included in the email. Use 'man
echo' and 'man mail' to understand those basic commands better. The
documentation on notifications might also be useful to you at
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/notifications.html.

--
Marc

(p.s. top-posting makes email hard to read in context and discourages
responses).



> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
> [mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of Marc
Powell
> Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 2:45 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] nagios and sendmail
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> > admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Edward Ford
> > Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 1:15 PM
> > To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: [Nagios-users] nagios and sendmail
> >
> > I finally got sendmail working on the computer that nagios is
> installed
> > on. Now how do I get nagios to talk to sendmail, is it with external
> > commands?
>
> A couple of examples --
>
>
> # 'notify-by-email' command definition
> define command{
>         command_name    notify-by-email
>         command_line    /bin/echo -e 'Subject: ** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$
> alert - $HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ is $SERVICESTATE$ **\n\n***** Nagios
> *****\n\nNotification Type: $NOT
> IFICATIONTYPE$\n\nService: $SERVICEDESC$\nHost: $HOSTALIAS$\nAddress:
> $HOSTADDRESS$\nState: $SERVICESTATE$\n\nDate/Time:
> $DATETIME$\n\nAdditional Info:\n\n$OUTPUT$' | /bin/
> mail Service $SERVICEDESC$ $SERVICESTATE$ alert for $HOSTNAME
> $CONTACTEMAIL$
>         }
>
> # 'host-notify-by-email' command definition
> define command{
>         command_name    host-notify-by-email
>         command_line    /bin/echo -e "Subject: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$
alert
> - Host $HOSTNAME$ is $HOSTSTATE$\n\n***** Nagios *****\n\nNotification
> Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\nHos
> t: $HOSTNAME$\nState: $HOSTSTATE$\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nInfo:
> $OUTPUT$\n\nDate/Time: $DATETIME$\n" | /bin/mail $CONTACTEMAIL$
>         }
>
> # 'service-notify-by-email' command definition
> define command{
>         command_name    service-notify-by-email
>         command_line    /bin/echo -e "Subject: Service $SERVICEDESC$
> $SERVICESTATE$ alert for $HOSTNAME$!\n\n***** Nagios
> *****\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\nHo
> st: $HOSTNAME$\nState: $SERVICESTATE$\nAddress:
> $HOSTADDRESS$\n\nService: $SERVICEDESC$\nInfo: $OUTPUT$\n\nDate/Time:
> $DATETIME$\n" | /bin/mail -s '** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ al
> ert - $HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ is $SERVICESTATE$ **' $CONTACTEMAIL$
>         }
>
> > Any good and useful responses would be appreciated.
>
> Unless I'm being very dense, these, and many other command definitions
> are created if you install the sample config files.
>
> --
> Marc
>


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