Setting up e-mail notifications.

[Carroll, Jim P [Contractor]]

My $0.02:

- e-mail notification works quite well
- pager notification works quite well
- these are defined out-of-the-box in misccommands.cfg, which are in turn
leveraged in contacts.cfg

As far as sending alerts via ICQ/MSN/Yahoo Messenger/AIM, you basically have
to figure out how to pass a message from the command line.

I'm having a quick look at RH Linux 7.3 right now, and it includes micq, a
command line interface to ICQ.  I've not played with it, so YMMV.  If it
doesn't do exactly what you want, you might want to try wrapping it in an
expect script.

Other than that, you might want to browse Sourceforge or Freshmeat to see
what possible AIM/ICQ/MSN/YM/etc programs exist which support input from the
command line.  (If I personally saw benefit to this approach, I'd be
investigating it.  But paging/SMS work fine for what I/we need.  :)

jc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank.Michael at star21.de [mailto:Frank.Michael at star21.de]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 8:41 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: AW: [Nagios-users] Setting up e-mail notifications.
> 
> 
> i think you have to setup a contact in contacts.cfg and add 
> this contact
> in a contactgroup.cfg and at least you add the group to your
> service.cfg! this is the way how email noticfication works at 
> my nagios.
> 
> 
> # contact.cfg
> # 'michael email' contact definition
> define contact{
>         contact_name                    michael
>         alias                           Admin
>         service_notification_period     24x7
>         host_notification_period        24x7
>         service_notification_options    w,u,c,r
>         host_notification_options       d,u,r
>         service_notification_commands   notify-by-email
>         host_notification_commands      host-notify-by-email
>         email                           frank.michael at star21.de
>         }
> 
> #contactgroup.cfg
> # 'nagios-admins' contact group definition
> define contactgroup{
>         contactgroup_name       nagios-admins
>         alias                   Nagios Administrators
>         members                 michael
>                 }
> # service.cfg
> # Service definition
> define service{
>         use                             generic-service         ; Name
> of service template to use
>         host_name                       <yourhost>
>         service_description             PING
>         is_volatile                     0
>         check_period                    24x7
>         max_check_attempts              3
>         normal_check_interval           5
>         retry_check_interval            1
>         contact_groups                  nagios-admins
>         notification_interval           240
>         notification_period             24x7
>         notification_options            c,r,u,w
>         check_command                   check_ping!100.0,20%!500.0,60%
>         }
> 
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Jan-Hendrik Palic [mailto:jhp at addix.net]
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 16. Oktober 2002 15:13
> An: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Betreff: Re: [Nagios-users] Setting up e-mail notifications.
> 
> 
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 03:01:47PM +0200, Jan-Hendrik Palic wrote:
> >Hi ... 
> >
> >On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 02:48:47PM +0200, Wibo Lammerts wrote:
> >>What would be a good way to set up notification? Does anyone have
> experience
> >>with notification through ICQ / Messenger / Pager? Any pitfalls?
> >
> >Email-Notification is easy to use. Use the standard config in 
> >$PATH_TO_NAGIOS_INSTALL/etc/checkconfig.cfg for 
> notification-by-email.
> 
> I mean checkcommands.cfg ... sorry.
> 
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