Sending email notifications

[Jatin Davey]

Hi Matt

I tried the following from the command line:

echo "test 1" | mail -s "test 1" contactemail at whatever

I tried giving my email address but i am not receiving any mail. Let me 
know what else i need to provide to make it work.

Thanks
Jatin

On 3/3/2010 10:42 PM, Matt Simmons wrote:
> By default, at the top of your commands.cfg file, you'll see things
> like "notify-host-by-email" and "notify-service-by-email". Those are
> commands that work in conjunction with the configuration specified in
> contacts.cfg.
>
> Essentially, all of your services and hosts have or inherit a
> "contact_groups" setting. That group name should be in contacts.cfg,
> and it should have all of the appropriate contacts listed in it.
> (see Nagios Object Definitions for more info:
> http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objectdefinitions.html )
>
> Assuming this is the case, and Nagios starts correctly without a
> configuration error, there's probably an issue with your mail. Check
> the email address that you have for your contacts. Is it correct?
>
> Assuming so, can you send an email from the command line? Try
>
> echo "test 1" | mail -s "test 1" contactemail at whatever
>
> If you receive the email, but Nagios still doesn't send it, make sure
> that you are able to run 'sendmail' as the nagios user (aside: people
> who know more than me: does Nagios invoke sendmail as the default
> MTA?).
>
> I'm going to guess that you can't send mail from the command line
> either, and that's probably because your MTA isn't setup correctly.
> Check your /var/log/maillog and your Sendmail (or postfix if you're
> lucky) configuration.
>
> For better advice, I'd need more info on what was going wrong,
> according to the results of the test and the log output.
>
> Good Luck.
>
> --Matt
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 7:59 AM, Jatin Davey<jashokda at cisco.com>  wrote:
>    
>> I had a requirement to monitor Java process on my windows server and
>> send an email if it goes down.
>> I have achieved adding the monitoring of java process on my nagios setup
>> , i have no clue what to do get nagios send notifications.
>> Anyone knows please let me know the steps involved.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Jatin
>>
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