No mail, no idea why not

Hugo van der Kooij hvdkooij at vanderkooij.org
Tue May 9 00:21:09 CEST 2006


On Mon, 8 May 2006, James Nachlin wrote:

> I've got Nagios set up, evrything seems OK.  BUT, when a service is
> down, I don't get an email.
>
> contacts.cfg is like (and that's not the actual email address in there):
> define contact{
>          contact_name                    jim
>          alias                           Jim
>          service_notification_period     workhours
>          host_notification_period        workhours
>          service_notification_options    c,r
>          host_notification_options       d,r
>          service_notification_commands   notify-by-email
>          host_notification_commands      host-notify-by-email
>          email                           jim at example.com
> }

There is only a limited exposure here. Try full notifications first before
you start reducing them.

Are there notifications listed?
Do you see failures of the service and/or host check? Do they report hard
or soft states?

Hugo.

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