Email service and host notification question.

[Askar Ali]

Ryan Pagquil wrote:

> Hi,
>    This is my first time to send a question to this mailing list. I 
> hope you can help me with my problem.
>    I'm setting up a nagios network monitoring to monitor my servers. 
> I  now have installed it on my test unit and set things up to monitor 
> my services running on my servers. I want nagios to notify me whenever 
> there is something wrong with my servers, now this is my question:
>
>    1. Do I need to run a mail server on the machine where I installed 
> nagios to check the notifications?
>    2. How will I set up nagios to send the notifications using my 
> existing email address?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
most of the linux distro come with atleast one MTA "sendmail", nagios 
will use the local MTA for sending notifications.
So you don't have to do much for configuring sendmail, just installing 
sendmail and running the daemon would be enough for nagios to send 
notification via email.

regards




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