yes It's working. So why i m not getting any alerts ? I didn't find any failure messages in maillogs. Chandresh <div>On 9/7/05, Zac <<a href="mailto:spdrmonkey@gmail.com">spdrmonkey@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Just to confirm, if you copy and paste : /usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios *****\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\nHost: $HOSTNAME$\nState: $HOSTSTATE$\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nInfo: $OUTPUT$\n\nDate/Time: $LONGDATETIME$\n" | /bin/mail -s "Host $HOSTSTATE$ alert for $HOSTNAME$!" $CONTACTEMAIL$ and replace the $*$ with test, except for $CONTACTEMAIL$ which should be the full e-mail address of where the alert is going. Everything works? As far as I can tell your config looks good. If this works at the command line, you should check your mail logs. Hope this helps. -Zac<div> <div>On 9/7/05, Chandresh Suthar <<a href="mailto:chandresh.suthar@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> chandresh.suthar@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div>Hi,</div> <div> </div> <div>Please help me in sending notifications. I have only one configuration file for contactfgroup,hostsgroup etc. "minimal.cfg"</div> <div> </div> <div>minimal.cfg :</div> <div> </div> <div>define timeperiod{ timeperiod_name 24x7 alias 24 Hours A Day, 7 Days A Week sunday 00:00-24:00 monday 00:00-24:00 tuesday 00:00-24:00 wednesday 00:00-24:00 thursday 00:00-24:00 friday 00:00-24:00 saturday 00:00-24:00 } </div> <div> define command{ command_name notify-by-email command_line /usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios *****\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\n\nService: $SERVICEDESC$\nHost: $HOSTALIAS$\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nState: $SERVICESTATE$\n\nDate/Time: $LONGDATETIME$\n\nAdditional Info:\n\n$OUTPUT$" | /bin/mail -s "** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ alert - $HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ is $SERVICESTATE$ **" $CONTACTEMAIL$ } # This is a sample host notification command that can be used to send email # notifications (about host alerts) to contacts. define command{ command_name host-notify-by-email command_line /usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios *****\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\nHost: $HOSTNAME$\nState: $HOSTSTATE$\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nInfo: $OUTPUT$\n\nDate/Time: $LONGDATETIME$\n" | /bin/mail -s "Host $HOSTSTATE$ alert for $HOSTNAME$!" $CONTACTEMAIL$ } define contact{ contact_name nagios alias Nagios Admin service_notification_period 24x7 host_notification_period 24x7 service_notification_options w,u,c,r host_notification_options d,r service_notification_commands notify-by-email host_notification_commands host-notify-by-email email <a href="mailto:nagios@localhost" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">nagios@localhost</a> } define contact{ contact_name chandresh alias Administrator service_notification_period 24x7 host_notification_period 24x7 service_notification_options w,u,c,r host_notification_options d,r service_notification_commands notify-by-email host_notification_commands host-notify-by-email email "personalemail id" } define contactgroup{ contactgroup_name admins alias Nagios Administrators members nagios } define contactgroup{ contactgroup_name admingrp alias Administrators members chandresh } define host{ name generic-host ; The name of this host template notifications_enabled 1 ; Host notifications are enabled event_handler_enabled 1 ; Host event handler is enabled flap_detection_enabled 1 ; Flap detection is enabled failure_prediction_enabled 1 ; Failure prediction is enabled process_perf_data 1 ; Process performance data retain_status_information 1 ; Retain status information across program restarts retain_nonstatus_information 1 ; Retain non-status information across program restarts register 0 ; DONT REGISTER THIS DEFINITION - ITS NOT A REAL HOST, JUST A TEMPLATE! } define host{ use generic-host ; Name of host template to use host_name <a href="http://webmail.com/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> webmail.com</a> alias localhost address <a href="http://127.0.0.1/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">127.0.0.1</a> check_command check-host-alive max_check_attempts 10 notification_interval 120 notification_period 24x7 notification_options d,r contact_groups admingrp } define service{ use generic-service ; Name of service template to use host_name <a href="http://webmail.com/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> webmail.com</a> service_description HTTP is_volatile 0 check_period 24x7 max_check_attempts 4 normal_check_interval 5 retry_check_interval 1 contact_groups admingrp notification_interval 960 notification_period 24x7 check_command check_http } I am able to send mails to my persoanl email id by "mail" command. But notification is not going. I have configured sendmail. I am not even receiving mails on local system at <a href="mailto:nagios@localhost" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> nagios@localhost</a>( I tried). I am even not getting any error messages in logs of nagios. Please help.</div> </blockquote></div> </div></blockquote></div>