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Not sure which email service was sending my nagios alerts?
Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2014 8:58 am
by billperrotta
What is the easiest way to figure out which email service was sending my Nagios alerts?
The email alerts have stopped working sinc the old admin left.
I do not think it is postfix because it doesn't respond to service postfix restart
Can somebody please tell me how to make nagios send a test email?
In Yast I have been able to determine it looks like postfix.
However I need to know how to make nagios send a test email.
Also how do i use chkconfig to start postfix at startup?
I need help testing this. Also how to define conditions to send the email.
I changed the old Admins email in contacts.cfg to the new admins. and no emails are being sent when servers go down.
Re: Not sure which email service was sending my nagios alert
Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2014 2:01 pm
by sreinhardt
Well, let's start with what notification commands your contacts are setup to use and how they are defined. Also are you using an internal or external mail server?
Re: Not sure which email service was sending my nagios alert
Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2014 2:13 pm
by billperrotta
we have all internal mail servers. exchange unrelated. There is no nagios email there.
Postfix appears to be installed on my nagios server
see my contacts.cfg below
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# CONTACTS.CFG - SAMPLE CONTACT/CONTACTGROUP DEFINITIONS
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# Last Modified: 05-31-2007
#
# NOTES: This config file provides you with some example contact and contact
# group definitions that you can reference in host and service
# definitions.
#
# You don't need to keep these definitions in a separate file from your
# other object definitions. This has been done just to make things
# easier to understand.
#
###############################################################################
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#
# CONTACTS
#
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# Just one contact defined by default - the Nagios admin (that's you)
# This contact definition inherits a lot of default values from the 'generic-contact'
# template which is defined elsewhere.
define contact{
contact_name nagiosadmin ; Short name of user
use generic-contact ; Inherit default values from generic-contact template (defined above)
alias Nagios Admin ; Full name of user
email [email protected] ; <<***** CHANGE THIS TO YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS ******
}
define contact{
contact_name nagiosuser
use generic-contact
alias Nagios User
email [email protected]
contactgroups admins
}
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# CONTACT GROUPS
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# We only have one contact in this simple configuration file, so there is
# no need to create more than one contact group.
define contactgroup{
contactgroup_name admins
alias Nagios Administrators
members nagiosadmin
}
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Re: Not sure which email service was sending my nagios alert
Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2014 4:13 pm
by sreinhardt
Since your contacts do not have a notification command defined, could you show the generic-contact template? Please use
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Locking thread, as you have an identical one here:
http://support.nagios.com/forum/viewtop ... 5840#90384