Mail sending issue.

[Allan Clark]

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:10, IT at Toonz <it.toonz at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We are testing with "Fully Automated Nagios". Have installed and started
>
>     monitoring 2 Windows 2003 servers. But we can't get notification to
> work.
>
> When we certify Nagios installation we get the following error
>
> send-mail: fatal: config variable inet_interfaces: host not found: local
> host
>
>     What does "notify-host-by-mail" mean? Is the notification send to host
> only.
>
>     How can we make FAN send mails?
>
>     We have an internal mail server, and are trying to send notifications to
> an
>
>     ID there. Connectivity is fine, have entered the id in contacts.cfg
> file.
>
>     We have installed NSClient++ in these servers, but the host server,
> shows
>
>     connection refused, there is no firewall!

It might help if you shared:
1) your Nagios config (all of it)
2) your email config
3) the result of a test by telnetting to your mailserver and faking a
mail transaction similar to what you're trying to do.

This might seem fairly intuitive to some, but not to others, so I'm
explicitly suggesting.  In general, detail is useful -- if you're
afraid to spam a maillist that reaches thousands, then simply provide
the same detail at a URL where it can be downloaded, and just give the
URL in your message.

NOT providing detail merely means people may have to ask for it --
ultimately delaying your solution -- or waste time guessing.

As Dave Stern points out, it might not be a Nagios problem if your
mail server -- for whatever reason -- won't let the nagios user or the
Nagios server box send a message... ie it's not Nagios' issue if the
mailserver refuses, regardless what attempts are made.

Please ensure you have your mailserver administrator onboard with what
you're doing.

If the collection of this background data and discussion with your
mailserver admin resolves the issue, please let us know :)

Allan
-- 
allanc at chickenandporn.com  "金鱼" http://linkedin.com/in/goldfish

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