HOW TO CONFIGURE EMAIL & SMS ALERT

[nagiosnandha]

Dear All,

I have configured nagios core in my concern, its working fine. may i know the steps to configure email and sms alert on Nagios.

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Regards,
Nantha

[MPIvan]

Hi,

Firs you have to choose one of the mail clients ( i for example use postfix ) and i have configured to work as null client, just to send mails not receive. But this is you choice. After that you have to configure command.cfg files, find the "notify-host-by-email" part and change the path to the mail service.

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# 'notify-host-by-email' command definition
define command{
        command_name    notify-host-by-email
        command_line    /usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios *****\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\nHost: $HOSTNAME$\nState: $HOSTSTATE$\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nInfo: $HOSTOUTPUT$\n\nDate/Time: $LONGDATETIME$\n" | /bin/mail -s "** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ Host Alert: $HOSTNAME$ is $HOSTSTATE$ **" $CONTACTEMAIL$
        }

# 'notify-service-by-email' command definition
define command{
        command_name    notify-service-by-email
        command_line    /usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios *****\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\n\nService: $SERVICEDESC$\nHost: $HOSTALIAS$\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nState: $SERVICESTATE$\n\nDate/Time: $LONGDATETIME$\n\nAdditional Info:\n\n$SERVICEOUTPUT$\n" | /bin/mail -s "** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ Service Alert: $HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ is $SERVICESTATE$ **" $CONTACTEMAIL$
        }

After that you have to configure the contacts in contacts.cfg file, to define contacts, for example:

define contact{
use generic-contact
contact_name nagiosnandha
alias Nagios
email yourusername@yourdomain.com
}

and the final part is to add this contact to one of the services or hosts depending of how and for what you would like to receive mail.

[abrist]

Just to add on to MPIvan's post:
Most people send sms through their carriers email gateway. A few use sms modems. If you wish to just send to a mobile carriers email gateway, you will need to find out their email gateway server hostname and send the notifications to the gateway. Most carriers use your phone number for the email address username, while others do not. You may have to do some research on what your carrier provides.

[nagiosnandha]

Hi,

Can i configure that in gmail or yahoo

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Regards.
Nantha

[slansing]

Well, you can send notifications there, yes. You can use sendmail or SMTP for this.

[tmcdonald]

Nagios doesn't have any bias for one email provider or another, so yes you can do this for gmail or yahoo,

[nagiosnandha]

Hi,

I tried but its not working, please send that configuration.

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Regards,
Nanthakumar.

[tmcdonald]

Please send what configuration?

[nagiosnandha]

for email alert. ie) contact.cfg

[tmcdonald]

I'm a little confused. Do you want to see my contacts.cfg?

Are you trying to get gmail/yahoo addresses working? What specifically is not working?