Email service and host notification question.

[Ryan Pagquil]

Askar Ali wrote:

> 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
>
Thanks Askar,
    I 've manage to send mail using the local MTA in my linux machine.

regards,


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