Nagios Change Config via email

Diego Roccia diego.roccia at gmail.com
Thu Sep 23 09:40:52 CEST 2010


Using procmail you can pipe emails trough scripts, so you're able to
create a script that parse the email subject/body and commit external
commands to nagios

regards
Diego


On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 5:38 AM, Ron Wilson <ron at tvnz.co.nz> wrote:
> I would like to be able to disable nagios notifications by using email.
>
> Situation is we are investing in automating patching of our servers. The
> patching software can send an email out at the beginning of each server
> patch and another at the end of patch
>
> I want Nagios to be able to receive the email which would have something
> like servername and stop en email subject line.
>
> If I set up an inwards mail client on the nagios server which would receive
> the email and drop it into a directory where Nagios would scan it and
> disable alerting for the server. At the end of patching the patch server
> will issue another email saying servername start and Nagios would receive
> email and re-enable alerting
>
> Anyone got any good ideas how to avhieve this?
>
>
>
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