Multiple E-Mail Address

Joe Giles jgiles at joeman1.com
Fri Feb 18 18:25:43 CET 2005


Marc Powell wrote:

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>
>>-----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
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>>
>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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Thanks for the reply... I opted for option 1 :)

Thanks again!!!

Joe


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