Changing Display Name

[Stephen H. Dawson]

Thank you.


Kindly,
SHD  

-----Original Message-----
From: Marc Powell [mailto:marc at ena.com] 
Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 14:44 EST
To: Nagios Users mailinglist
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Changing Display Name


On Sep 21, 2009, at 12:43 PM, Stephen H. Dawson wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We currently have:
> Nagios [blah at blah.com]
>
>
> ...going on our email notifications for the FROM address.  We are 
> thinking of changing the "Nagios" part.  Where is this changed, 
> please?

This is handled outside of nagios. Changing /etc/passwd is simplest.

>  Also, is this a global thing, or can we set it up to have a different 
> display name for certain email recipients?

It's effectively global. It can be done but it's not trivial. You might want
to search for 'notification' on one of the nagios exchanges to see if
something suitable for you already exists.

--
Marc

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