that's it if your mail program is /usr/bin/mail <div>2006/1/27, Nicola Agnelli <<a href="mailto:nicola.agnelli@spiderwall.com">nicola.agnelli@spiderwall.com</a>>:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div> Thank you very mach, so for "notify-by-email" I sould add | /usr/bin/mail -s "Service $HOSTALIAS$ alert for $SERVICEDESC$!" $CONTACTEMAIL$ Right ? Tnx <div> <div style="text-align: center;" align="center"> <hr align="center" size="2" width="100%"> </div> Da: Toto Capuccino [mailto:<a href="mailto:shoktai@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">shoktai@gmail.com</a>] Inviato: venerdė 27 gennaio 2006 11.23 A: Nicola Agnelli Cc: Arno Lehmann; <a href="mailto:nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net </a> Oggetto: Re: R: R: [Nagios-users] email notification problem </div> You should use the variables to get more info : # 'host-notify-by-email' command definition 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: $DATETIME$\n" | /usr/bin/mail -s "Host $HOSTSTATE$ alert for $HOSTNAME$!" $CONTACTEMAIL$ } <div> 2006/1/27, Nicola Agnelli <<a href="mailto:nicola.agnelli@spiderwall.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> nicola.agnelli@spiderwall.com</a>>: Thank you for answer, so the correct command should be: define command{ > command_name notify-by-email > command_line /usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios > *****\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\n\nService: > $SERVICEDESC$\nHost: $HOSTALIAS$\nAdd$ | mail -s Notification > } And define command{ > command_name host-notify-by-email > command_line /usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios > *****\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\nHost: $HOSTNAME$\nState: > $HOSTSTATE$\nAddress: $$ | mail -s Notification > } ? Sorry for my questions but I'm new to nagios .. Nicola -----Messaggio originale----- Da: <a href="mailto:nagios-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">nagios-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:nagios-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> nagios-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net</a>] Per conto di Arno Lehmann Inviato: venerdė 27 gennaio 2006 10.50 A: <a href="mailto:nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a> Oggetto: Re: R: [Nagios-users] email notification problem Hello, On 1/27/2006 10:23 AM, Nicola Agnelli wrote: > Hello all, > i've the same problem, i've installed nagios 2.0 and all works good, but the > email notifications can't be send.. The first step could be to modify your command_line to actually send a message. Usually, you use printf to create and format the output AND THEN pipe that output to your mail program. Like 'printf "somethning" | mail -s Notification ... Arno > my command is the default command: > > define command{ > command_name notify-by-email > command_line /usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios > *****\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\n\nService: > $SERVICEDESC$\nHost: $HOSTALIAS$\nAdd$ > } > And: > define command{ > command_name host-notify-by-email > command_line /usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios > *****\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\nHost: $HOSTNAME$\nState: > $HOSTSTATE$\nAddress: $$ > } > > But I can't receive notifications mails.. > Here are the nagios.log: > > .... > [1138352948] HOST ALERT: w2k3-server;DOWN;SOFT;9;CRITICAL - Host Unreachable > (<a href="http://10.0.0.222" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> 10.0.0.222</a>) > [1138352951] HOST ALERT: w2k3-server;DOWN;HARD;10;CRITICAL - Host > Unreachable (<a href="http://10.0.0.222" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">10.0.0.222</a>) > [1138352951] HOST NOTIFICATION: > nagios-admin;w2k3-server;DOWN;host-notify-by-email;CRITICAL - Host > Unreachable (<a href="http://10.0.0.222" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">10.0.0.222</a>) > .... > > How can I resolve ? > > Tnx all > > nicola > > > -----Messaggio originale----- > Da: <a href="mailto:nagios-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">nagios-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net</a> > [mailto:<a href="mailto:nagios-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">nagios-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net</a> ] Per conto di Arno Lehmann > Inviato: venerdė 27 gennaio 2006 10.02 > A: <a href="mailto:nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a> > Oggetto: Re: [Nagios-users] email notification problem > > Hello, > > On 1/27/2006 3:44 AM, test 123king wrote: > >>I have set up nagios nagios-1.3-14.fc4 in my FC4 server, the only >>problem now is the email notification can't be send out. >>The original notify-by-email in misccommands.cfg file is like below: >># 'notify-by-email' command definition >>define command{ >>command_name notify-by-email >>command_line /usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios *****nnNotification >>Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$nnService: $SERVIC >>EDESC$nHost: $HOSTALIAS$nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$nState: >>$SERVICESTATE$nnDate/Time: $DATETIME$nnAdditional Info:n >>n$OUTPUT$" | -s "** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ alert - $HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ >>is $SERVICESTATE$ **" $CONTACTEMAIL$ >>} >> >>I changed it to : >># 'notify-by-email' command definition >>define command{ >>command_name notify-by-email >>command_line /bin/mail "%b" "***** Nagios *****nnNotification Type: >>$NOTIFICATIONTYPE$nnService: $SERVIC >>EDESC$nHost: $HOSTALIAS$nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$nState: >>$SERVICESTATE$nnDate/Time: $DATETIME$nnAddi tional Info:n >>n$OUTPUT$" | -s "** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ alert - $HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ >>is $SERVICESTATE$ **" $CONTACTEMAIL$ >>} >> >>Basically I replaced /usr/bin/printf with /bin/mail. > > > And you don't have a valid command line left: after the pipe, there > should be a program to read the output from mail. And your invocation of > mail looks a little... non-standard to me. > > >>In the /var/log/messages log I see the following error: >> >> >>Warning: Attempting to execute the command "/bin/mail "%b" "***** Nagios >>*****nnNotification Type: RECOVERYnHost: Server-1nState: UPnAddress: >>10.100.1.79nInfo: PING OK - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 0.76 msnnDate/Time: >>Thu Jan 26 17:48:21 EST 2006n" | -s "Host UP alert for Server-OTM!" >><a href="mailto:sysadmin@www.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> sysadmin@www.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:sysadmin@www.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> sysadmin@www.com</a>>" resulted in a return code of >>127. Make sure the scri//pt or binary you are trying to execute actually >>exists... > > > It's all there: the output from mail is piped to '-s' which, most > probably, is not installed on your system as an executable program in > the path. > > >>Any kind help is highly appreciated!! >> > > > Why don't you try the original notification script and simply insert > your mail command between pipe and '-s'? The reason why it's missing, by > the way, is probably that configure couldn't identify your mailer. > > Arno > -- IT-Service Lehmann <a href="mailto:al@its-lehmann.de" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">al@its-lehmann.de</a> Arno Lehmann <a href="http://www.its-lehmann.de" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.its-lehmann.de </a> ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! 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