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Nagios shows that the notifications are sent, but the contact is not receiving them
Although the Test Send Email Is received.

Notifications is appeared in the console.

The Notification by email is enabled, and the notification status last change is changing.

See the attached file.

Hi,

I Created a user named help1, login to help1 modify the notification as mentioned in the document.
I add help1 contact to IT-Infra group and configurethe host as shown in the screenshot attached.
but not receive alerts when power off the monitored host.

I seems that some thing is missing

Thank You Very much

We Have about 100 host, and we have 5 admins every admin has 20 host we need to send notification email about the host status, each admin will receive notification for his own hosts only. We configure it with send mail (notify_host_by_email) and work fine, but we need to use SMTP, how to use xi_host...

I still Receive emails using notify_host_by_email which is not SMTP
I use xi_host_notification_handler to use SMTP but still not working to send emails although I create user and use the contact for that user.

although send_test_email is working fine

Hello, amozahim . Can you check to see which notification commands are being used? In Core Configurations Manager go to the Contacts menu in the left column, select a contact and go to the Alert Settings tab. You can find the commands under Manage Host Notification Commands and Manage Service Notif...

Thanks For Reply I used the default command in notify_host_by_email command definition /usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios Monitor XI Alert *****\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\nHost: $HOSTNAME$\nState: $HOSTSTATE$\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nInfo: $HOSTOUTPUT$\n\nDate/Time: $LO...

Dears
I have installed latest nagios version, and configure it and it is working fine.

The only problem is in mail setting I added Send Mail From: [email protected] but I received emails from nagios@NagiosServerName.

Although we have a testing one and working fine with same configuration.