<div>So much to what I wrote a few days ago...: you also checked them with your Nagios user, not root, right?</div><div> </div><div>But at least it works now ;-) </div><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Nick Price <<a href="mailto:np121@hotmail.com">np121@hotmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid;" class="gmail_quote"><div lang="EN-US" vlink="purple" link="blue" bgcolor="white"> <div>Stupid I forgot that bit Did chmod 5777 sendmail and it works now Thanks for the help <div><div style="border-width: 1pt medium medium; border-style: solid none none; border-color: rgb(181, 196, 223) currentColor currentColor; padding: 3pt 0cm 0cm;">From: Michael Friedrich [mailto:<a href="mailto:michael.friedrich@univie.ac.at" target="_blank">michael.friedrich@univie.ac.at</a>] Sent: Friday, December 02, 2011 12:54 To: <a href="mailto:nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net" target="_blank">nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a><div><div></div><div class="h5"> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] notification emails</div> </div></div></div><div><div></div><div class="h5"> <tt>On 02.12.2011 12:36, Nick Price wrote:</tt> <tt>No its still activated</tt><tt> </tt> <tt>I even copied the configs from the old server.</tt> <tt> </tt><tt>It seems it’s just fedora 16 that has the problem. </tt> <tt> </tt><tt>This version of Nagios works fine with fedora 16.</tt> <tt> </tt><tt>I looked on tactical view</tt> <tt> </tt><tt>Everything is enabled except SSH localhost</tt> <tt> </tt><tt> </tt> <div style="border-width: 1pt medium medium; border-style: solid none none; border-color: windowtext currentColor currentColor; padding: 3pt 0cm 0cm;"><tt>From:</tt><tt> Claudio Kuenzler [<a href="mailto:ck@claudiokuenzler.com" target="_blank">mailto:ck@claudiokuenzler.com</a>] </tt> <tt>Sent:</tt><tt> Friday, December 02, 2011 12:14</tt> <tt>To:</tt><tt> Nagios Users List</tt> <tt>Subject:</tt><tt> Re: [Nagios-users] notification emails</tt> </div><tt> </tt><tt>Did you by accident disable the notifications?</tt> <tt>On the Nagios web interface, click on Tactical Overview.</tt> <tt>At the end of the page (Monitoring Features) check that Notifications are green/enabled.</tt> <tt>It would make sense as you don't have SELinux and all commands seem to work from command-line (you also checked them with your Nagios user, not root, right?).</tt> <div><tt>On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Nick Price <<a href="mailto:np121@hotmail.com" target="_blank">np121@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:</tt> <div><div><tt>Ok</tt><tt> </tt> <tt>I am getting in the debug log</tt><tt> </tt> <tt>Notification viability test failed. No notification will be sent.</tt> <tt> </tt><tt>What is this and how to troubleshoot it.</tt> <tt> </tt><tt>I can send emails from command line.</tt> <tt>Selinux is disabled</tt><tt> </tt> <tt> </tt><tt> </tt> <tt> </tt><tt> </tt> <div style="border-width: 1pt medium medium; border-style: solid none none; border-color: windowtext currentColor currentColor; padding: 3pt 0cm 0cm;"><tt>From:</tt><tt> <a href="mailto:mail@catsnest.co.uk" target="_blank">mail@catsnest.co.uk</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:mail@catsnest.co.uk" target="_blank">mail@catsnest.co.uk</a>] </tt> <tt>Sent:</tt><tt> Friday, December 02, 2011 10:23</tt> <div><div> <tt>To: Nagios Users List</tt> <tt>Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] notification emails</tt> </div></div></div><div><div><tt> </tt><tt> </tt><div> <tt>On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 8:14 AM, Nick Price <<a href="mailto:np121@hotmail.com" target="_blank">np121@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:</tt><div><div> <tt>Yes printf works</tt><tt>I had the same version of Nagios with the same config files working OK with fedora 14</tt> <tt>It is only when I installed it on fedora 16 the notifications don’t work</tt> <tt>I think it’s a bug within Nagios</tt><div><div><tt> </tt> </div></div></div></div><div><tt>I doubt that its a bug in Nagios, as Nagios just uses your system's commands to send notifications.</tt> <tt>What is your notification config? can you run the commands the notification uses as the Nagios user?</tt> <tt>Is there some security such as SE Linux running?</tt> <tt>You could try adding logging to the Notification command eg add a ">> /var/tmp/Notification.log"</tt> <tt>or instead of the Notification command being a direct command, make a script for it instead.</tt> <tt>Ritchie,</tt> <tt>--</tt> <tt><-- <a href="http://23.me.uk/2" target="_blank">http://23.me.uk/2</a> --></tt> <tt><--Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana. --></tt> <tt> </tt></div><blockquote style="border-width: medium medium medium 1pt; border-style: none none none solid; border-color: currentColor currentColor currentColor windowtext; margin: 5pt 0cm 5pt 4.8pt; padding: 0cm 0cm 0cm 6pt;"> <div><div><div><div><tt> </tt><tt> </tt> <tt>Did you also do </tt> <tt>printf ‘this is a test’ | /bin/mail –s test_email <a href="mailto:email@mydomain.com" target="_blank">email@mydomain.com</a></tt> <tt>?</tt><div><tt>On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 9:09 PM, Nick Price <<a href="mailto:np121@hotmail.com" target="_blank">np121@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:</tt> <div><div><tt>The defaults are there.</tt> <tt> </tt><tt> </tt> <tt>I did echo ‘this is a test’ | /bin/mail –s test_email <a href="mailto:email@mydomain.com" target="_blank">email@mydomain.com</a></tt> <tt> </tt><tt> </tt> <tt>That went out Ok</tt><tt> </tt> <tt>What to look at next</tt><tt> </tt> <tt> </tt><tt> </tt> <div style="border-width: 1pt medium medium; border-style: solid none none; border-color: windowtext currentColor currentColor; padding: 3pt 0cm 0cm;"><tt>From:</tt><tt> Claudio Kuenzler [mailto:<a href="mailto:ck@claudiokuenzler.com" target="_blank">ck@claudiokuenzler.com</a>] </tt> <tt>Sent:</tt><tt> Wednesday, November 30, 2011 12:37</tt> <tt>To:</tt><tt> Nagios Users List</tt> <tt>Subject:</tt><tt> Re: [Nagios-users] notification emails</tt> </div><div><div><tt> </tt><tt>Did you check the command which is used to send notifications in command.cfg or checkcommand.cfg ?</tt> <tt>Maybe you don't have the binary or you need to rename the command.</tt> <tt>By default it uses /usr/bin/printf and /usr/bin/mail if I'm not mistaken.</tt><div> <tt>On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Nick Price <<a href="mailto:np121@hotmail.com" target="_blank">np121@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:</tt><tt>Hello</tt> <tt>I am not sure if this is a bug or config issue.</tt> <tt>I have a clean install of fedora 16 32 bit with a manual install of nagios</tt> <tt>3.3.1 and nagios plugins 1.4.15.</tt> <tt>I see in the debug log</tt> <tt>Notification viability test failed. No notification will be sent out.</tt></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div></div> <tt>the contact, which will be shown some lines above (always post a complete debug log for a notification!), did not pass the viability tests. this can be notification_options, notification_period, notifications_disabled, etc. so to conclude with, i'd highly advise you to</tt> <tt>1/ post the contact object definition from the objects.cache</tt> <tt>2/ post the complete service object definition from the objects.cache</tt> <tt>3/ post the complete debug for this service and contact notification</tt> <div><div><div><div><div><div><blockquote style="border-width: medium medium medium 1pt; border-style: none none none solid; border-color: currentColor currentColor currentColor windowtext; margin: 5pt 0cm 5pt 4.8pt; padding: 0cm 0cm 0cm 6pt;"> <div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div> <tt>I can send test emails from this server using sendmail and that bit works</tt> <tt>Is there a solution for this.</tt> <tt>Regards</tt> <tt>Nick</tt> <tt>------------------------------------------------------------------------------</tt> <tt>All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure</tt> <tt>contains a definitive record of customers, application performance,</tt> <tt>security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. 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