My email notifications from nagios have stopped

[billperrotta]

What service sends the nagios email notificaions? And how do I stop Start and restart it?

[scottwilkerson]

It used /bin/mail by default, and depending on the system you need to restart the appropriate MTA, for example, if your system uses postfix it might be

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service postfix restart

[billperrotta]

besides postfix what other service might it be using?

i dont get a response for postfix start or restartî

[tmcdonald]

Can you show us exactly what you typed and what the output was?

Also, what OS and version is this on?

[billperrotta]

service postfix restart

dont receive a response

suse linux 12.3

is there a way to send a test notification to test it?
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[slansing]

If you are not using postfix, what mail client "MTA" did you configure for notification sending?

[billperrotta]

The old admin left the company.

Do you have any suggestions how I can figure it out.

[slansing]

The easiest way (other than searching for MTA packages) would be grepping for the notification commands that would have been defined:

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grep -R 'notify-host-by-email' /usr/local/nagios/etc/

Once you find the command, you should see a command_line defined in it, can you copy the entire command out of it's configuration file and share it here?

[billperrotta]

Not understanding

my nagios is installed in

/etc/nagios

not very familiar with grep

same command with my path?

[billperrotta]

ahgmonitor:~ # grep -R 'notify-host-by-email' /etc/nagios
/etc/nagios/objects/commands.cfg:# 'notify-host-by-email' command definition
/etc/nagios/objects/commands.cfg: command_name notify-host-by-email
/etc/nagios/objects/templates.cfg: host_notification_commands notify-host-by-email ; send host notifications via email
ahgmonitor:~ #


is this correct?

EDIT: Locked other identical thread: http://support.nagios.com/forum/viewtop ... =7&t=25879