Email notification problem

[orani]

I had my nagios server configured to send mail notifications but after updating to latest version 4.4.5 no notifications are sent to configured emails.

Any ideas?

[tgriep]

If you login to the GUI and so to the Reports > Notifications menu, do you see that there are Notifications being generated?

If not, go to the System > Process Info menu and check to see if Notifications are disabled.
Enable them if needed.


If you see that the system is generating Notifications, check the commands you are using to send the Notifications as well as checking the email log files.

[orani]

I can see notifications being generated at the notifications tab. Also my notification commands seems to be ok.

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notify-host-by-email

/usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios *****\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\nHost: $HOSTNAME$\nState: $HOSTSTATE$\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nInfo: $HOSTOUTPUT$\n\nDate/Time: $LONGDATETIME$\n" | /bin/mail -s "** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ Host Alert: $HOSTNAME$ is $HOSTSTATE$ **" $CONTACTEMAIL$

notify-service-by-email

/usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios *****\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\n\nService: $SERVICEDESC$\nHost: $HOSTALIAS$\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nState: $SERVICESTATE$\n\nDate/Time: $LONGDATETIME$\n\nAdditional Info:\n\n$SERVICEOUTPUT$\n" | /bin/mail -s "** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ Service Alert: $HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ is $SERVICESTATE$ **" $CONTACTEMAIL$

What to look for at the mail log file?

[orani]

Solved after rebooting the server. After reboot i received all mails (new and stacked)

[tgriep]

I would guess that what ever mailer daemon the server was running (Sendmail or Postfix) was hung and that was the issue in the first place.
Thanks for letting us know that the reboot fixed it and I will be locking the post.