How configure Nagios to send periodic notifications?

[Arnau]

Hi all,

Assaf Flatto wrote:
> hello 
>
> You want to take a look at the external commands :
>  
> http://www.nagios.org/developerinfo/externalcommands/commandinfo.php?command_id=135
>   

I have upgraded from nagios2 to nagios3 and now when I execute the shell 
script that fires the external command it runs fine. The problem is that 
nagios doesn't fire a mail. I have done the following. I have created a 
shell script that it should be executed via a cron task and everytime it 
should send an email fired by the service.


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#!/bin/sh
# This is a sample shell script showing how you can submit the 
SEND_CUSTOM_SVC_NOTIFICATION command
# to Nagios.  Adjust variables to fit your environment as necessary.

now=`date +%s`
commandfile='/var/lib/nagios3/rw/nagios.cmd'

/usr/bin/printf "[%lu] 
SEND_CUSTOM_SVC_NOTIFICATION;192.168.10.26;MAILPARSER_TEST;2;test;Testing 
if everything is OK\n" $now > $commandfile
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And I have defined the following service

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define service {
        service_description     MAILPARSER_TEST
        check_command           return-critical
        normal_check_interval   2
        use                     generic-service
        notification_interval   0
}
--------------------------------------

And never sends a mail as it normally does with all the other services I 
have. Any idea?

Cheers!!

> Assaf
>
> On Friday 24 April 2009 15:48:39 Arnau wrote:
>   
>> Hi all,
>>
>>   Since few weeks ago we use Nagios as monitoring system and everytime
>> there is a problem it notifies sending an email. We have a system that
>> parses those emails and using a text to speech system it makes a phone
>> call. To be sure that the alarm system is running we have periodic calls
>> launched by emails programmed as cron tasks. I'm worried that some of
>> the Nagios notifications could be lost or even it wouldn't sent any
>> notification, so I'd like to launch to substitute those cron emails by
>> Nagios "fake" notifications or something similar.
>>
>>   Do you know if there is a way to force Nagios to send a notification
>> periodically?
>>
>> Thank you very much
>>
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