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Can I use different email addresses for different types of a
Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2019 5:52 pm
by Alan
I am trying to figure out if I can send different emails for different types of alerts. I use google voice and Zabbix. When Zabbix sends an email alert, it is forwarded to google voice and google voice calls whoever is on call, then reads the email.
So I am wondering if I can have an email setup for servers being completely down. Then have another email setup for warnings like hard drive being 90%? I am trying to set it up in such a way that I am only getting woken up at 2 in the morning if a critical server is down. And if non-critical servers go down I just get an email.
Also, I am trying to figure out if I can have the thresholds set on time. Example, if the CPU sends a warning email at 80%. Instead of sending it an email right when it hits 80% can I have it send an email only if it is 80% or above for 30 minutes.
Re: Can I use different email addresses for different types
Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2019 7:48 am
by scottwilkerson
Sorry, this is not a Zabbix forum and we do not know anything about their software.
Re: Can I use different email addresses for different types
Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2019 10:57 am
by Alan
Sorry I should of clarified this more. I am trying to move from Zabbix to Nagios and I am trying to find out if this setup is possible to do in Nagios. I was just trying to give an example of what it does in Zabbix. So I am just trying to find out if this will work and if it does how to set it up.
Re: Can I use different email addresses for different types
Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2019 11:02 am
by scottwilkerson
Ok, that makes more sense.
You can setup multiple contacts, and each of them can have independent notification commands for hosts and services.
There is no limit to the number of contacts, or commands you can specify, and each command can be customized to your specifications.
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... bject.html
Re: Can I use different email addresses for different types
Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2019 11:07 am
by Alan
Great I will have a look at this thanks for the guidance.
Re: Can I use different email addresses for different types
Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2019 11:47 am
by scottwilkerson
Alan wrote:Great I will have a look at this thanks for the guidance.
no problem
Re: Can I use different email addresses for different types
Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2019 4:35 pm
by Alan
I am trying to get two contacts setup and one contact group and I can’t seem to get it working. I have tired to add things everywhere I can think of. I get this error when running - sudo /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
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Website: https://www.nagios.org
Reading configuration data...
Read main config file okay...
Error: Contact 'admins' is not defined anywhere!
Error: Could not add contact 'admins' to host (config file '/usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/ncpa.cfg', starting on line 147)
Error processing object config files!
What I have configured so far:
The contacts.cfg file with
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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] ; Add email here
}
define contact {
contact_name alawoo
use generic-contact
alias Alan Woods
email [email protected]
}
define contactgroup{
contactgroup_name admins
alias Nagios Administrators
members nagiosadmin, alawoo
}
The ncpa.cfg file with:
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define host {
host_name Svr-ome
address 172.17.20.8
check_command check_ncpa!-t 'CMPublic' -P 5693 -M system/agent_version
max_check_attempts 5
check_interval 5
retry_interval 1
check_period 24x7
contacts admins
notification_interval 60
notification_period 24x7
notifications_enabled 1
icon_image ncpa.png
statusmap_image ncpa.png
register 1
}
define service {
host_name Svr-ome
service_description CPU Load
check_command check_ncpa!-t 'CMPublic' -P 5693 -M cpu/percent -w 70 -c 80 -q 'aggregate=avg'
max_check_attempts 5
check_interval 5
retry_interval 1
check_period 24x7
notification_interval 60
notification_period 24x7
contacts nagiosadmin
contact_groups admins
register 1
}
define service {
host_name Svr-ome
service_description C:\ Drive
check_command check_ncpa!-t 'CMPublic' -P 5693 -M 'disk/logical/C:|/used_percent' -w 85 -c 95
max_check_attempts 5
check_interval 5
retry_interval 1
check_period 24x7
notification_interval 60
notification_period 24x7
contacts nagiosadmin
contact_groups admins
register 1
}
define service {
host_name Svr-ome
service_description Memory Usage
check_command check_ncpa!-t 'CMPublic' -P 5693 -M memory/virtual -w 80 -c 90 -u G
max_check_attempts 5
check_interval 5
retry_interval 1
check_period 24x7
notification_interval 60
notification_period 24x7
contacts nagiosadmins
contact_groups admins
register 1
}
define service {
host_name Svr-ome
service_description Ping
check_command check_ping!60.0,5%!100.0,10%
max_check_attempts 5
check_interval 5
retry_interval 1
check_period 24x7
notification_interval 60
notification_period 24x7
contacts nagiosadmins
contact_groups admins
register 1
}
I found a form that said I needed to add the name of the contactgroup_name admins to this file somewhere but I am not sure where. All the email works when i am just using one contact with nagiosadmin
Re: Can I use different email addresses for different types
Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2019 8:26 pm
by scottwilkerson
change this
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define host {
host_name Svr-ome
address 172.17.20.8
check_command check_ncpa!-t 'CMPublic' -P 5693 -M system/agent_version
max_check_attempts 5
check_interval 5
retry_interval 1
check_period 24x7
contacts admins
notification_interval 60
notification_period 24x7
notifications_enabled 1
icon_image ncpa.png
statusmap_image ncpa.png
register 1
}
to this
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define host {
host_name Svr-ome
address 172.17.20.8
check_command check_ncpa!-t 'CMPublic' -P 5693 -M system/agent_version
max_check_attempts 5
check_interval 5
retry_interval 1
check_period 24x7
contact_groups admins
notification_interval 60
notification_period 24x7
notifications_enabled 1
icon_image ncpa.png
statusmap_image ncpa.png
register 1
}
Re: Can I use different email addresses for different types
Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2019 11:34 am
by Alan
That worked great thanks. I now have emails going to several people and different alerts going to different people,
Re: Can I use different email addresses for different types
Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2019 11:40 am
by scottwilkerson
Alan wrote:That worked great thanks. I now have emails going to several people and different alerts going to different people,
perfect!