email alerts

[rkobliski]

My first setup and everything works great except emal alerts, i get them but the include everyone.
[email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected];

see list for complete listings

how do i stop this???

[jsmurphy]

Are you able to provide an example of your contact definitions and host/service definition? Nagios doesn't by default send to all contacts, so there has to be something somewhere in your configuration that is causing this behaviour.

[rkobliski]

my hostgroups.cfg is not being use. hostgroups.cfg~


###############################################################################
###############################################################################
#
# CONTACTS
#
###############################################################################
###############################################################################

# 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 Ray ; Short name of user
use generic-contact ; Inherit default values from generic-contact template (defined above)
alias Ray Kobliski ; Full name of user

email [email protected] <***** CHANGE THIS TO YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS ******
}



###############################################################################
###############################################################################
#
# CONTACT GROUPS
#
###############################################################################
###############################################################################

# 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 Ray
}




Commands.cfg file below

# '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 $SERVICESTATE$ **" $CONTACTEMAIL$
}

using the generic template for the email:


define contact{
name generic-contact ; The name of this contact template
service_notification_period 24x7 ; service notifications can be sent anytime
host_notification_period 24x7 ; host notifications can be sent anytime
service_notification_options n ; send notifications for all service states, flapping events, and scheduled downtime events
# service_notification_options w,u,c,r,f,s ; send notifications for all service states, flapping events, and scheduled downtime events
host_notification_options n ; send notifications for all host states, flapping events, and scheduled downtime events
# host_notification_options d,u,r,f,s ; send notifications for all host states, flapping events, and scheduled downtime events
service_notification_commands notify-service-by-email ; send service notifications via email
host_notification_commands notify-host-by-email ; send host notifications via email
register 0 ; DONT REGISTER THIS DEFINITION - ITS NOT A REAL CONTACT, JUST A TEMPLATE!
(have it disabled for now because of problem)


Thanks for any help on this

[jsmurphy]

Are you also able to provide a service or host definition that has experienced a problem and has sent an email to all members and not just you?

[rkobliski]

If i replace $CONTACTEMAIL$ in the commands.cfg with my email address it works. I can work with this solution till i find a fix for the other problem. So if i can find where it pulls the info for the contacts ( which i thought was just me) i should be able to fix this right?

[jsmurphy]

Yes, this is why I am suggesting that you check your host or service definitions to ensure that additional contacts aren't defined there or in the templates.