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Re: Email Notifications
Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2015 10:46 am
by jcwuerfl
Ok thanks. I will try that. So if its SMTP is there one for that ? Is there docs on each ?
Re: Email Notifications
Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2015 11:04 am
by tmcdonald
If you need to use SMTP, you will need to have an associated XI User and use the
xi_host_notification handler and
xi_service_notification handler commands for that User's contact. Otherwise, you will need to write a notification-handling script that can use SMTP, or configure Sendmail to work with SMTP. The following guides might help:
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... ntacts.pdf
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... ios-XI.pdf
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... iables.pdf
Re: Email Notifications
Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2015 11:08 am
by jcwuerfl
Gotcha. I'll test w/ sendmail and those mail commands hopefully that will work with what I need to do.
Thanks!
Re: Email Notifications
Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2015 11:12 am
by tmcdonald
Sounds good! We can keep this thread open for a bit and if you have any questions/news feel free to update.
Re: Email Notifications
Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2015 11:25 am
by jcwuerfl
Perhaps this is a different issue but I did see the email alert. It was coming from a different email address with sendmail then I thought it would. Was the hostname of the VM but would like it to come accross with a different from address. Is that possible?
Second. Via the Web it seemed to take a long time for the problem to show up via the web interface? Not sure why that would be ? Almost a couple minutes?
Thanks.
Re: Email Notifications
Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2015 4:56 pm
by hsmith
jcwuerfl wrote:Perhaps this is a different issue but I did see the email alert. It was coming from a different email address with sendmail then I thought it would. Was the hostname of the VM but would like it to come accross with a different from address. Is that possible?
Yeah, you have to edit the command definition for notify-host-by-email and notify-service-from email. Depends on the distro, but for mine I had to put -a "From:
[email protected]" right after the /usr/bin/mail command.
jcwuerfl wrote:Second. Via the Web it seemed to take a long time for the problem to show up via the web interface? Not sure why that would be ? Almost a couple minutes?
Where on the Web UI do you mean?
Re: Email Notifications
Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2015 5:04 pm
by ssax
If you used notify-host-by-email and notify-service-by-email you would edit those commands in your /usr/local/nagios/etc/commands.cfg, I believe adding a -r
[email protected] to the mail command should make it work, you should test it from the command line first though.
For your second issue, are you saying that you received the notification but it didn't show up in the interface until a few minutes later? Did you manually refresh the page?