Can Nagios XI send notifications if mail is down

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Can Nagios XI send notifications if mail is down

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Hi,

Currently i have nagios XI 5.6.10 and using sendmail (through mailbox [email protected] ) to send notifications to customers, and we are currently monitoring those mail servers too, if the server or service is down nagios alerts cant be delivered to users. Is there a way for Nagios to send alerts even if sendmail is down?

Thanks.
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Re: Can Nagios XI send notifications if mail is down

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There are couple of options (and maybe more) that can be used.

For the first one, you don't need a device, but you need to set up an account with Twilio. Read more on Twilio SMS Integration with Nagios XI here:

https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... ith_XI.pdf

For the second one, you would need to have a MultiConnect® rCell Series Router from MultiTech. More info here:

https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... ith-XI.pdf

Hope this helps.
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Re: Can Nagios XI send notifications if mail is down

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I am not looking for an extra software, if i use SMTP mailing can i achieve that?
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Re: Can Nagios XI send notifications if mail is down

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Sure, you can use SMTP too. If you go to Admin > System Config > Email Settings, you will see (under the Outbound tab) that there are two "Send Method" options - Sendmail and SMTP. You can use either one.
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