Nagios email alerts

Fredrik Wänglund fredrik.wanglund at datavis.se
Fri May 16 13:39:22 CEST 2003


Look at your command-definitions (usually in misccommands.cfg). By 
default Nagios uses 'mail' to put the mail
in the queue. You then have to configure Sendmail or another MTA do be 
able to deliver the mail to other hosts.

/FredrikW

Baker, Brendon wrote:

>Hi Everyone
>
>I was just wondering if anybody knows how Nagios sends out email's. Is it
>via sendmail or some other server. Mine seems to be taking a long time to
>send out an alert after it has detected that a service is down.
>
>Regards
>Brendon
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