Multiple E-Mail Address

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Joe Giles
> Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 10:51 AM
> To: Nagios Users List
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Multiple E-Mail Address
> 
> Hey all,
> 
> I was wondering how I can set up multiple e-mail address for my
> contacts. I want alerts sent to more than one e-mail address and I
tried
> adding one e-mail address, then separating with a comma, then another
> e-mail address and only the first is sent.
> 
> How can I specify multiple e-mail address to send alerts too.

There are two ways that I can think of --

1) Create multiple contacts and add them to the same contactgroup.

2) Does the mailer program you are using for your notifications support
multiple addresses? The email address is simply passed to your notify
command as $CONTACTEMAIL$, as long as the format of that variable and
the command definition match what the program is expecting, it should
just work. For example, /bin/mail allows you to specify multiple email
addresses on the command line as long as they are separated by commas so
I could use the following --

# 'nateng-servers' contact definition
define contact{
        contact_name                    nateng-servers
        alias                           Servers On Call
        service_notification_period     24x7
        host_notification_period        24x7
        service_notification_options    c,r
        host_notification_options       d,r
        service_notification_commands   service-notify-by-email
        host_notification_commands      host-notify-by-email
        email
marc at ena.com,someotheremail at address.foo
        }

# 'service-notify-by-email' command definition
define command{
        command_name    service-notify-by-email
        command_line    /bin/echo -e "Subject: Service $SERVICEDESC$
$SERVICESTATE$ alert for $HOSTNAME$!\n\n***** Nagios
*****\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$
\nHost: $HOSTNAME$\nState: $SERVICESTATE$\nAddress:
$HOSTADDRESS$\n\nService: $SERVICEDESC$\nInfo: $OUTPUT$\n\nDate/Time:
$DATETIME$\n" | /bin/mail -s '** $NOTIFICATION
TYPE$ alert - $HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ is $SERVICESTATE$ **'
$CONTACTEMAIL$
        }

I've just tested this and it works as expected. Make sure you're not
stripping out ',' in illegal_macro_output_chars.

--
Marc



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