Nagios does not send email notifications

[Greg Pangrazio]

Can you send a command using the "mail" command via the command line?

If you don't have mail configured on the server nagios cannot send mail.

Greg Pangrazio
pangrazi at gmail.com





On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 1:41 PM, ReynierPM <rperezm at uci.cu> wrote:
> Hi every:
> I have problems now with email notification unless I didn't receive one.
>   I check Nagios Event Logs and see this:
>
> [12-08-2009 14:53:28] Warning: Attempting to execute the command
> "/usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios *****\n\nNotification Type:
> PROBLEM\n\nService: Bacula Dir Daemon\nHost: bacula\nAddress:
> 10.128.50.11\nState: UNKNOWN\n\nDate/Time: Tue Dec 8 14:53:28 CST
> 2009\n\nAdditional Info:\n\nRemote command execution failed: Permission
> denied, please try again." | /bin/mail -s "** PROBLEM Service Alert:
> bacula/Bacula Dir Daemon is UNKNOWN **" rperezm at uci.cu" resulted in a
> return code of 127. Make sure the script or binary you are trying to
> execute actually exists...
>
> But the mail never arrive to my Inbox. Why? My config is as follow:
>
> define command{
>        command_name    notify-host-by-email
>        command_line    /usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios *****\n\nNotification
> Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\nHost: $HOSTNAME$\nState: $HOSTSTATE$\nAddress:
> $HOSTADDRESS$\nInfo: $HOSTOUTPUT$\n\nDate/Time: $LONGDATETIME$\n" |
> /bin/mail -s "** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ Host Alert: $HOSTNAME$ is
> $HOSTSTATE$ **" $CONTACTEMAIL$
> }
>
> # 'notify-service-by-email' command definition
> define command{
>        command_name    notify-service-by-email
>        command_line    /usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios *****\n\nNotification
> Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\n\nService: $SERVICEDESC$\nHost:
> $HOSTALIAS$\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nState: $SERVICESTATE$\n\nDate/Time:
> $LONGDATETIME$\n\nAdditional Info:\n\n$SERVICEOUTPUT$" | /bin/mail -s
> "** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ Service Alert: $HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ is
> $SERVICESTATE$ **" $CONTACTEMAIL$
> }
>
> Cheers and thanks in advance
> --
> ReynierPM
>
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