Receiving mail alert for failed services

[Sunil Sankar]

Make sure you have sendmail or postfix configured to do so ;)

On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Zama Ques <queszama at yahoo.in> wrote:

> ok...We need to configure a mail agent also . Let me do that and will get
> back here  if it does not work/further doubts.
> Thanks for the help .
>
> Thanks
> Zaman
>   ------------------------------
>  *From:* FTL Nagios <ftlnagios at gmail.com>
> *To:* 'Zama Ques' <queszama at yahoo.in>; 'Nagios Users List' <
> nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, 17 April 2013 2:51 PM
> *Subject:* RE: [Nagios-users] Receiving mail alert for failed services
>
> Have you set us Postfix or other such mail agent to actually send the mail?
>
> *From:* Zama Ques [mailto:queszama at yahoo.in]
> *Sent:* 17 April 2013 08:01
> *To:* nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> *Subject:* [Nagios-users] Receiving mail alert for failed services
>
> Hi All ,
>
>
> I was trying to configure to send alert mails for failed services in
> Nagios . For this , I tried the following configuration
>
> =====
>  /usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/contacts.cfg
>
> define contact{
>         contact_name                    zamanl                  ; Short
> name of user
>         use                                      generic-contact         ;
> Inherit default values from generic-contact template (defined above)
>         alias                                    Nagios Admin            ;
> Full name of user
>
>         email                                  zaman at server.example.com       ; <<***** CHANGE THIS TO YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS ******
>         }
>
>
> define contactgroup{
>         contactgroup_name       nagiosadmins
>         alias                                 Nagios Administrators
>         members                         zamanl
>         }
>
>
> Restarted nagios service without any errors and it looks like
> notifications are generated for failed services by looking at system log
> file
>
>
> [@server ~]# tail -f /var/log/messages
> Apr 17 11:26:52 server nagios: SERVICE NOTIFICATION: zamanl;mgthost;Total
> Processes;CRITICAL;notify-service-by-email;PROCS CRITICAL: 312 processes
> Apr 17 11:27:22 server nagios: SERVICE NOTIFICATION: zamanl;host1;Total
> Processes;CRITICAL;notify-service-by-email;PROCS CRITICAL: 313 processes
> Apr 17 11:27:22 server nagios: SERVICE NOTIFICATION: zamanl;host2;Total
> Processes;CRITICAL;notify-service-by-email;PROCS CRITICAL: 313 processes
>
> But I have not received any mail messages for the notification .
>
> [@server ~]$ id
> uid=501(zaman) gid=501(zaman) groups=501(zaman)
> [@server ~]# mail
> No mail for zaman
> [@server ~]# hostname
> server.example.com
>
> Kindly suggest what needs to be done to receive alert mail for failed
> services ?
>
> Any help will be highly appreciated .
>
> Thanks
> Zaman
>
>
>
>
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Regards
Sunil Sankar
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