Turn off email notifications system wide

[jbennett]

As part of my move to a new Nagios box, I would like to disable notification emails on the old box system wide.

I'm worried that by using the bulk modification tool to do this, I will run into issues if I need to turn them back on.

The bulk modification tool only modifies the hosts and the services, not templates.

I have gone through and tried to use a template for all of my hosts and services in order to make modifications easier down the road. If I disable notifications at the host/service level, it overwrites the templates that are applied. If I need to enable notifications once more for some reason, Just turning notifications on at the host/service level might cause problems.

Am I looking at this the wrong way?

[lmiltchev]

You can go to: Home->Monitoring Process->click on the "x", next to "Notifications" (the "Disable" action button) to disable notifications globally.

Hope this helps.

[jbennett]

Well that was beyond simple. Now I feel like a goober.

Thanks!

[slansing]

Closing as resolved.

[lmiltchev]

jbennett,

Run the following command to start capturing output:

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tail -f /usr/local/nagiosxi/var/cmdsubsys.log

and click on the "Disable" Notifications button from the web interface. Wait for a while, then send me the output from running the tail.

Also, run the following commands and show me the output of it:

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ls -ld /usr/local/nagios/var/rw
ll /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd

Are you having issues with disabling notifications globally?

[jbennett]

I actually ended up restarting the nagios process and in the process got a Warning: Cannot set UID=500 error that I've gotten before.

Since this box needed to be rebooted anyways, I went ahead and rebooted it and now the notifications are disabled just as they should be.

Thanks so much!

[slansing]

Great thanks for letting us know!