install & configure the email notification

[shailesh]

Hi,

Please can someone help me how to install & configure the email notification on Nagios Core 3.5 Version.

Thanks,
Shailesh

[slansing]

I'd recommend taking a look at this page here, which will guide you through notifications and help you to decide what way is best for you:

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/ ... tions.html

[shailesh]

thanks for reply.

I have gone through of your link and understand about it.

Please let me know what is the steps to configure the mails alerts and which mail daemons I can install postfix or sendEmail or sendmail in my Nagios environment.

Please help...

Thanks,
Shailesh

[gshergill]

Hi Shailesh,

This isn't official documentation, but I wrote an install guide for mail on Nagios Core with Ubuntu OS. Link is below (note that I've only set up on Ubuntu servers so not sure if this works on other OS).

http://www.globility.co.uk/?p=386

Hope this helps!

Kind Regards,

Gary Shergill

[slansing]

Oh interesting, neat guide, I can see that being helpful to more than a few people here.

[shailesh]

Hi Gshergill,

Thanks Gshergill for reply, I am trying to installed Postfix & heirloom-mailx on Centos 6.3 64 bit.

I am trying to install heirloom-mailx package but it is giving error which mention below,

# yum install heirloom-mailx
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, security
Determining fastest mirrors
* base: centos.aol.in
* extras: centos.aol.in
* updates: centos.aol.in
base | 3.7 kB 00:00
extras | 3.5 kB 00:00
updates | 3.4 kB 00:00
updates/primary_db | 4.0 MB 01:09
Setting up Install Process
No package heirloom-mailx available.
Error: Nothing to do

Please help me how i can deploy the configure the mails alerts with Nagios.

Thanks,
Shailesh...

[gshergill]

Hi Shailesh,

For CentOS, try using the below command instead;

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yum install mailx

I'm pretty sure that's how I installed it on CentOS before but it has been a while...

Kind Regards,

Gary Shergill

[abrist]

Additionally, you will want to change your notification commands to use mailx (and the full path) instead of /usr/bin/mail or /bin/mail.