Problems with email alerts

[Marc Powell]

Just a couple of thoughts... Have you verified that the timeperiods and
notification_options for each contact allow notifications? Are you
having disk space issues? How about any SELinux policies you may have
enacted. Do you see any avc denied messages in /var/log/messages that
might be relevant?

--
Marc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Christian Lahti
> Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 12:29 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Problems with email alerts
> 
> Hello List.
> 
> 
> 
> I am wondering if I should submit this problem to the devel list?  I
have
> not had any luck in resolving this problem, if anyone has any idea
what
> the solution is I would be ever so grateful.  Here is what I posted
> earlier this week:
> 
> 
> 
> Ok, I am beating my head against a problem, need a Nagios guru.  We
have a
> redhat box with Nagios installed, here is the package list:
> 
> nagios-devel-1.2-2.2.el4.rf
> nagios-nsca-2.4-2.2.el4.rf
> nagios-1.2-2.2.el4.rf
> nagios-nrpe-2.0-3.2.el4.rf
> nagios-plugins-nrpe-2.0-3.2.el4.rf
> nagios-plugins-1.4.1-1.2.el4.rf
> 
> I have setup Nagios many times, and this installation was working
> perfectly up until a week or so ago.  Suddenly the notify-by-email and
> host-notify-by-email stop sending email.  checks are working fine,
just no
> notifications.  to test this I force a failure, and the
/var/log/messages
> has:
> 
> Oct 23 21:35:56 envy nagios: SERVICE ALERT:
> envy;TEST;CRITICAL;HARD;3;Connection to 10.250.100.230 failed
> Oct 23 21:35:56 envy nagios: SERVICE NOTIFICATION:
> chris.gmail;envy;TEST;CRITICAL;notify-by-email;Connection to
> 10.250.100.230 failed
> 
> This implies that the notification fired...so I create a test service
to
> use a new notifier called notify-by-test with this as the command:
> 
> # 'notify-by-test' command definition
> define command{
>         command_name    notify-by-test
>         command_line    /usr/bin/printf "TEST FOR NAGIOS" | /bin/mail
-s
> "** test alert **" clahti at gmail.com
> }
> 
> This command_line works from the normal command line as the nagios
user
> when run in a shell.  Now I force an OK and this is what the log says:
> 
> Oct 23 21:49:47 envy nagios: SERVICE ALERT: envy;TEST;OK;HARD;3;test2
> Oct 23 21:49:47 envy nagios: SERVICE NOTIFICATION:
> chris.gmail;envy;TEST;OK;notify-by-test;test2
> 
> Implies that the notification went out, but I still get no mail.
Finally
> I change the command to:
> 
> command_line    touch /tmp/THISFIRED
> 
> Repeat the above and the log shows service notification, but the
THISFIRED
> file does not appear, which leads me to believe Nagios is not running
the
> command...please tell me this is something simple and I am being
dense, I
> am at my wits end (I thought I was pretty good with Nagios...)
> 
> /Chris
> 
> 



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