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Thank you! Checked the variables and we're all good now, notifications are coming through.

Thank you so much for all your help!

Ok, one last issue (I hope): The command works in the terminal, but no notifications are sent. What do I need to add to the commands/host config to make that happen?

That fixed it! Thank you! I am typographically challenged, apparently!

Also here's what I get back when I run the command:

Ok, got sendemail to work with gmail, but still no luck running the notification command. Here's what it currently looks like, post-tinkering to make it match my working example gmail test email: /usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios *****\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\nHost: ...

Thanks, tried that and am having issues connecting to the gmail stmp, which I'm assuming is not a Nagios issue? Will report back if there are further difficulties once I get it to connect.

Ok, fixed the /usr/local/bin/sendEmail, the one that really exists is /usr/bin/sendEmail.

Also fixed the email to reflect the Gmail STMP configuration, which I forgot to fix.

Have added in the contact stuff in the host definition on a test machine, still no notification. What else should I try?

Sure thing, attached.

Hello, I'm trying to configure Nagios Core to send me emails when the services and hosts go down. I've set up sendEmail, and I think all the values in the contacts and commands config files are correct, but it's not working so presumably I'm missing something. Here is my contact definition: define c...

Got it working, just had to get the machine onto the right network. Thank you for your help!