Can I use different email addresses for different types of a

[Alan]

I am trying to figure out if I can send different emails for different types of alerts. I use google voice and Zabbix. When Zabbix sends an email alert, it is forwarded to google voice and google voice calls whoever is on call, then reads the email.

So I am wondering if I can have an email setup for servers being completely down. Then have another email setup for warnings like hard drive being 90%? I am trying to set it up in such a way that I am only getting woken up at 2 in the morning if a critical server is down. And if non-critical servers go down I just get an email.

Also, I am trying to figure out if I can have the thresholds set on time. Example, if the CPU sends a warning email at 80%. Instead of sending it an email right when it hits 80% can I have it send an email only if it is 80% or above for 30 minutes.

[scottwilkerson]

Sorry, this is not a Zabbix forum and we do not know anything about their software.

[Alan]

Sorry I should of clarified this more. I am trying to move from Zabbix to Nagios and I am trying to find out if this setup is possible to do in Nagios. I was just trying to give an example of what it does in Zabbix. So I am just trying to find out if this will work and if it does how to set it up.

[scottwilkerson]

Ok, that makes more sense.

You can setup multiple contacts, and each of them can have independent notification commands for hosts and services.

There is no limit to the number of contacts, or commands you can specify, and each command can be customized to your specifications.

https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... bject.html

[Alan]

Great I will have a look at this thanks for the guidance.

[scottwilkerson]

Great I will have a look at this thanks for the guidance.

no problem

[Alan]

I am trying to get two contacts setup and one contact group and I can’t seem to get it working. I have tired to add things everywhere I can think of. I get this error when running - sudo /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg

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Website: https://www.nagios.org
Reading configuration data...
   Read main config file okay...
Error: Contact 'admins' is not defined anywhere!
Error: Could not add contact 'admins' to host (config file '/usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/ncpa.cfg', starting on line 147)
   Error processing object config files!

What I have configured so far:
The contacts.cfg file with

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define contact{
        contact_name                    nagiosadmin             ; Short name of user
        use                             generic-contact         ; Inherit default values from generic-contact template (defined above)
        alias                           Nagios Admin            ; Full name of user
        email                           email@mydomian.com       ; Add email here
 }

define contact {
        contact_name                    alawoo
        use                             generic-contact
        alias                           Alan Woods
        email                           email@mydomian.com
}


define contactgroup{
        contactgroup_name       admins
        alias                   Nagios Administrators
        members                 nagiosadmin, alawoo
        }

The ncpa.cfg file with:

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define host {
    host_name               Svr-ome
    address                 172.17.20.8
    check_command           check_ncpa!-t 'CMPublic' -P 5693 -M system/agent_version
    max_check_attempts      5
    check_interval          5
    retry_interval          1
    check_period            24x7
    contacts                admins
    notification_interval   60
    notification_period     24x7
    notifications_enabled   1
    icon_image              ncpa.png
    statusmap_image         ncpa.png
    register                1
}

define service {
    host_name               Svr-ome
    service_description     CPU Load
    check_command           check_ncpa!-t 'CMPublic' -P 5693 -M cpu/percent -w 70 -c 80 -q 'aggregate=avg'
    max_check_attempts      5
    check_interval          5
    retry_interval          1
    check_period            24x7
    notification_interval   60
    notification_period     24x7
    contacts                nagiosadmin
    contact_groups          admins
    register                1
}

define service {
    host_name               Svr-ome
    service_description     C:\ Drive
    check_command           check_ncpa!-t 'CMPublic' -P 5693 -M 'disk/logical/C:|/used_percent' -w 85 -c 95
    max_check_attempts      5
    check_interval          5
    retry_interval          1
    check_period            24x7
    notification_interval   60
    notification_period     24x7
    contacts                nagiosadmin
    contact_groups          admins
    register                1
}

define service {
    host_name               Svr-ome
    service_description     Memory Usage
    check_command           check_ncpa!-t 'CMPublic' -P 5693 -M memory/virtual -w 80 -c 90 -u G
    max_check_attempts      5
    check_interval          5
    retry_interval          1
    check_period            24x7
    notification_interval   60
    notification_period     24x7
    contacts                nagiosadmins
    contact_groups          admins
    register                1
}

define service {
    host_name               Svr-ome
    service_description     Ping
    check_command           check_ping!60.0,5%!100.0,10%
    max_check_attempts      5
    check_interval          5
    retry_interval          1
    check_period            24x7
    notification_interval   60
    notification_period     24x7
    contacts                nagiosadmins
    contact_groups          admins
    register                1
}

I found a form that said I needed to add the name of the contactgroup_name admins to this file somewhere but I am not sure where. All the email works when i am just using one contact with nagiosadmin

[scottwilkerson]

change this

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define host {
    host_name               Svr-ome
    address                 172.17.20.8
    check_command           check_ncpa!-t 'CMPublic' -P 5693 -M system/agent_version
    max_check_attempts      5
    check_interval          5
    retry_interval          1
    check_period            24x7
    contacts                admins
    notification_interval   60
    notification_period     24x7
    notifications_enabled   1
    icon_image              ncpa.png
    statusmap_image         ncpa.png
    register                1
}

to this

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define host {
    host_name               Svr-ome
    address                 172.17.20.8
    check_command           check_ncpa!-t 'CMPublic' -P 5693 -M system/agent_version
    max_check_attempts      5
    check_interval          5
    retry_interval          1
    check_period            24x7
    contact_groups                admins
    notification_interval   60
    notification_period     24x7
    notifications_enabled   1
    icon_image              ncpa.png
    statusmap_image         ncpa.png
    register                1
}

[Alan]

That worked great thanks. I now have emails going to several people and different alerts going to different people,

[scottwilkerson]

That worked great thanks. I now have emails going to several people and different alerts going to different people,

perfect!