Alternative Notification Method for a Backup

[Mirza Dedic]

I have thought this over and I think the original method I was looking for is either flawed or would be rather very difficult to setup as the 2nd ISP is not physically connected to our LAN unless you manually make a switch in the server room (which defeats the purpose).

However, we do have MPLS links to other offices/servers that have their own ISPs. A way to monitor internet connectivity on our main location would be to setup a Nagios server there and run check scripts in our main office that try to pull stuff from the net.

Then send an SMTP email using that office's ISP to an external mailbox/SMS gateway to reach the admins. I plan to stick with that idea unless someone has a simpler more centralized solution for this to avoid a 2nd nagios/mailer setup?

Thanks.

-----Original Message-----
From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Mirza Dedic
Sent: June/16/2008 11:27 AM
To: 'Patrick Morris'
Cc: 'nagios Users Mailinglist'
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Alternative Notification Method for a Backup

Hello,

I will be using sendmail on the box that Nagios is running and it will be relaying emails to our Exchange Server.

-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick Morris [mailto:patrick.morris at hp.com]
Sent: June/16/2008 11:21 AM
To: Mirza Dedic
Cc: 'nagios Users Mailinglist'
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Alternative Notification Method for a Backup

On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, Mirza Dedic wrote:

> We do have a 2nd ISP in the office as a alternative (it is used to test stuff bypassing all the H/W & S/W firewalls & security) that I could use, but how do you configure or tell Nagios to send notifications through that to a specific outside-of-our-servers mailbox? (ex, gmail?).

You wouldn't configure Nagios to do that; you'd configure your mailer.
How you would do that depends which you're using, and you haven't told
us.



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