My notify-by-email =========snip========== define command { command_name notify-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: $DATETIME$\n\nAdditional Info:\n\n$OUTPUT$" | /usr/bin/mail -s "** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ alert - $HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ is $SERVICESTATE$ **" $CONTACTEMAIL$ } =========snip========== Does /bin/mail exist on your system? Is /bin/mail accessible by the nagios user? What I can think of off the top of my head. Bill <div> On 2/20/06, Dave Stern <<a href="mailto:dave@umiacs.umd.edu">dave@umiacs.umd.edu</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> We have two iterations at our site, one running the old netsaint (which works flawlessly) and one running nagios 1.2 on RHEL E3-AS. The latter rebuilds its config files each night based on various site-specific files detailing what hosts we have, what to monitor on them etc. The Linux version is not notifying when hosts/services go down. I suspect this is nothing more than the notify-by-email command. On netsaint, it's command[notify-by-email]=/usr/bin/printf '%s\n%s\n%s\n%s' '***** NetSaint 0.0.7 ***** $SERVICESTATE$ alert/notification' 'Host: $HOSTNAME$ Address: $HOSTADDRESS$', 'Additional Info: $OUTPUT$' | /usr/bin/mailx -s 'Service alert: $HOSTNAME$ is $SERVICESTATE$ **, $SERVICEDESC$' $CONTACTEMAIL$ and on linux its # 'notify-by-email' command definition define command{ command_name notify-by-email command_line /usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios *****\n\nNotificati on Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\n\nService: $SERVICEDESC$\nHost: $HOSTALIAS$\nAddre ss: $HOSTADDRESS$\nState: $SERVICESTATE$\n\nDate/Time: $DATETIME$\n\nAdditional Info:\n\n$OUTPUT$" | /bin/mail -s "** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ alert - $HOSTALIAS$/$ SERVICEDESC$ is $SERVICESTATE$ **" $CONTACTEMAIL$ } Does anyone know what the command should look like and how to test the above? Thanks =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- generated by /dev/dave -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= David Stern University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! <a href="http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642"> http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642</a> _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list <a href="mailto:Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net"> Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a> <a href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users</a> ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null </blockquote></div>