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Nagios FROM email address
Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2020 1:48 pm
by MarkCampbell
This may be a stupid question, but I've been going throughout the UI looking for this and have only seen one field for the Nagios FROM email field, which I've found in nagiosxi/admin/mailsettings.php. I've changed it here to Nagios XI <
[email protected]>, and when I tell it to send me a test email, I get it exactly as I typed it in... but when I receive actual alert emails, it comes as
[email protected] (this server is in AWS, which defaults the hostname to the IP in dashes). Where else could this alternate email address be set?
Re: Nagios FROM email address
Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2020 5:03 pm
by benjaminsmith
HI Mark,
Thanks for trying out Nagios XI and welcome to the Nagios Customer Support Forum!
For clarification, are you using SMTP or Sendmail in your email settings ( a screenshot would be helpful)?
Regards,
Benjamin
Re: Nagios FROM email address
Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2020 5:10 pm
by MarkCampbell
I am using SMTP to connect to Amazon SES.
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Re: Nagios FROM email address
Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2020 2:41 pm
by ssax
This is likely because those contacts are using the
notify-host-by-email/notify-service-by-email commands. You can either do this:
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... Mailer.pdf
Or you can edit the notify-host-by-email/notify-service-by-email commands in
Configure > Core Config Manager > Commands and add an option to the mail command to set the From address:
The defaults:
notify-host-by-email:
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/usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios Monitor XI Alert *****\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:
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/usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios Monitor XI Alert *****\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\n\nService: $SERVICEDESC$\nHost: $HOSTALIAS$\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nState: $SERVICESTATE$\n\nDate/Time: $LONGDATETIME$\n\nAdditional Info:\n\n$SERVICEOUTPUT$" | /bin/mail -s "** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ Service Alert: $HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ is $SERVICESTATE$ **" $CONTACTEMAIL$
(for example, adding
-S "from=Nagios XI <[email protected]>")
notify-host-by-email:
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/usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios Monitor XI Alert *****\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\nHost: $HOSTNAME$\nState: $HOSTSTATE$\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nInfo: $HOSTOUTPUT$\n\nDate/Time: $LONGDATETIME$\n" | /bin/mail -S "from=Nagios XI <[email protected]>" -s "** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ Host Alert: $HOSTNAME$ is $HOSTSTATE$ **" $CONTACTEMAIL$
notify-service-by-email:
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/usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios Monitor XI Alert *****\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\n\nService: $SERVICEDESC$\nHost: $HOSTALIAS$\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nState: $SERVICESTATE$\n\nDate/Time: $LONGDATETIME$\n\nAdditional Info:\n\n$SERVICEOUTPUT$" | /bin/mail -S "from=Nagios XI <[email protected]>" -s "** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ Service Alert: $HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ is $SERVICESTATE$ **" $CONTACTEMAIL$
Then apply configuration and test.
See here as well:
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... ntacts.pdf
Re: Nagios FROM email address
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2020 4:33 pm
by MarkCampbell
Thanks that worked, I imported my configuration from a Nagios Core instance, but didn't realize it was overriding the use of the php mailer.
Re: Nagios FROM email address
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2020 1:32 pm
by ssax
Glad that worked for you! Let us know when we're okay to lock this up and mark it as resolved.
Thank you!
Re: Nagios FROM email address
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2020 1:44 pm
by MarkCampbell
I think I'm good to mark this as resolved.
Re: Nagios FROM email address
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2020 2:11 pm
by scottwilkerson
MarkCampbell wrote:I think I'm good to mark this as resolved.
Great!
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