No email alerts ??

[Hugo van der Kooij]

On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Nedim Bicic wrote:

> Hey all have nagios 2.9 running linux red hat enterprise 4 the email for
> nagios sending notifications arent working for some reason i know the box
> can send email because the it has the MTA agent installed cuase i can send
> other emials from that machine
>
> I can see host down in nagios webpage i have the contact groups set
> appropritaley and of course my email address in contacts group i even did a
> sanity check to see if i have any syntex errors nothing so far.
>
> this is what i have in commands.cfg file under emails:
>
> # 'host-notify-by-email' command definition
> define command{
> command_name host-notify-by-email
> command_line /usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios 2.9 *****\n\nNotification
> Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\nHost: $HOSTNAME$\nState: $HOSTSTATE$\nAddress:
> $HOSTADDRESS$\nInfo: $HOSTOUTPUT$\n\nDate/Time: $LONGDATETIME$\n" |
> /bin/mail -s "Host $HOSTSTATE$ alert for $HOSTNAME$!" $CONTACTEMAIL$
> }
>
> and i also took out the option not to notify in my host file.

Do you have events logged by Nagios? Does it show notifications? If that 
happens to be the case then llok at the delivery of the notifications.

If one assumes you run this as the nagios user then test is as such.

Become the nagios user with:
 	su - nagios s /bin/sh

Then execute the command as shown on the commandline but substitute 
$CONTACTEMAIL for the intended recipient.

If that fails to deliver then you need to fix your MTA. Get to the logs of 
it to check it out.

Hugo.

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