Its the "S" attribute, just like D,U,C,W,R etc... just put it in your contacts.cfg and templates.cfg<div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 12:19 AM, trm asn <<a href="mailto:trm.nagios@gmail.com" target="_blank">trm.nagios@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dear Friends, I would like to setup an email notification mechanism while adding a schedule maintenance downtime. It should use the existing contact info to send the mail. it'll be really helpful, if anybody help me to get started with. --Thanks, TRM ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! <a href="http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov" target="_blank">http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov</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" target="_blank">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> </div>