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Hello Experts,

I have 2 questions

How to send an email notification from nagiosxi and where do we configure phone number. Because in contact settings I can only see the pager number. There is no space to enter a mobile number for user. please help me with this

Another question is
Do we need to purchase a sms gateway for sending an sms notification? Is it possible to send and test email notification for free for testing purpose?

yunushaikh wrote: Is it possible to send and test email notification for free for testing purpose?

That's going to depend on a lot of things. Can you give us more information on what you are looking to do?

As for the Email and Text Notifications, general information can be found at https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... ios-XI.pdf

Some carriers provide phone number email addresses, but the gateway is important if those carriers don't. For example, I know from personal experience that FreedomPop, and Google Voice do not do SMS email.

In case we run into issues going forward, can you PM me your Profile? You can download it by going to Admin > System Config > System Profile and click the Download Profile button towards the top. If for whatever reason you *cannot* download the profile, please put the output of Show Profile in the thread (that will at least get us some info).

After you PM the profile, please update this thread. Updating this thread is the only way for it to show back up on our dashboard.

yunushaikh wrote: How to send an email notification from nagiosxi and where do we configure phone number. Because in contact settings I can only see the pager number. There is no space to enter a mobile number for user. please help me with this

To enter the mobile number for a user, they can do so when logged in, clicking their username, and then click Notification Methods. From here you will see a tab to enter the phone number.

Do we need to purchase a sms gateway for sending an sms notification? Is it possible to send and test email notification for free for testing purpose?

No, you can use [email protected] as long as the company supports it. If your mobile company doesn't support it, then I would look at a hardware gateway or a cloud SMS provider.