"Mail from" being overwritten by upgrade

[dfmco]

I have made changes to the commands.cfg file to change the send from email. Every upgrade reverts those changes. I tried to change strategy and change the sendmail.mc file but it does not exist. I am using a pre-built VMWare image from the Nagios download site and I have sendmail set as the mail method. Can you point me in the correct direction to make this change survive an upgrade?

[tmcdonald]

Changes should not be made to the .cfg files, but rather in the CCM. Upgrades should not change this, but any time you apply config from the CCM it will overwrite.

[dfmco]

I see nowhere in the CCM to change the mail from address. Under admin I can change "Send Mail From:" but I still get mail sent from root@localhost. How can I ensure that mail comes from a specific address that will survive an upgrade?

[tmcdonald]

The "Send Mail From" should be working, but if you prefer the commands.cfg route you would just go to the CCM and instead of editing a host, service, contact, etc you would go to the Commands section and edit the command from there.

[Box293]

To change the address that alerts are sent from do the following:

• Click the Admin menu
  Under System Config click Manage Email Settings
  Fill in the "Send Mail From" field, for example:

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  Nagios XI Prouction <[email protected]>

[dfmco]

I have it configured as such but all email comes from root@localhost.

[tmcdonald]

What version of XI was this machine originally, and what version is it now?

[dfmco]

I am now on the latest version (2014r1.2). The install was rebuilt from scratch (not upgraded). Email is still coming from root@localhost.

[lmiltchev]

I have it configured as such but all email comes from root@localhost.

I suspect your monitoring contacts are NOT xi users but "contacts only". Does nagiosadmin contact also receive emails from root@localhost? See review our documentation on how to configure notifications in XI here:

http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagi ... ations.pdf