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Setting up notifications
Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2015 1:07 pm
by lance.peterson
How do I set up notifications for servers when they have critical issues. I'd like SMS and email. I have the SMTP server already set up in Nagios? I must be missing this in the Nagios interface somewhere?
Re: Setting up notifications
Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2015 1:21 pm
by jolson
Are you adding your hosts/services by using Configuration Wizards? At the end of each Wizard there is a 'Notifications Settings' section.
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Be sure to add the appropriate contacts there.
If you're looking for additional information, the following document is worth the read:
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... ios-XI.pdf
Re: Setting up notifications
Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2015 3:09 pm
by lance.peterson
Is there a way I can test my SMS settings. There is a test email but I don't see anything for testing SMS?
Re: Setting up notifications
Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2015 4:12 pm
by jolson
After you set up SMS texting notifications, nagios is going to send alert emails to %cellnumber%@%provider%
Where %cellnumber% is your 10-digit cell phone number, and %provider% is your SMS providers email gateway.
As long as you have email alerts set up and working properly, you should be good to go. To test this, you could intentionally trigger a critical alert/acknowledge some problem, and Nagios will send you alerts as you have defined.