<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#993399"> Hi, (a) For getting mail alerts you need to define the mail id in /usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/contacts.cfg Example define contact{ contact_name nagiosadmin ; Raj use generic-contact ; Inherit default values from generic-contact template (defined above) alias Nagios Admin ; Full name of user email <your email ID> ; <<***** CHANGE THIS TO YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS ****** } (b) Install postfix as satellite mailing system. Point the relay host to any private or public SMTP server for relaying your mails (private - if for a company),, public you may have to search for it (c) edit this file installed in /etc/postfix/main.cf restart Nagios, postfix...... it should start sending the mails...... pls check the logs for the same /var/logs Rajshekar Pallavolu Reddi Sekhar Reddy wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:bd40f4cb0906170304k51b589e6lc4d9a90029f02fe6@mail.gmail.com" type="cite">Hi, I have installed the nagios on fedora 10 OS. how can i get alerts from nagios? where to configure the nagios alerts on contacts group for my mail ID(<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:pr.sekharreddy@gmail.com">pr.sekharreddy@gmail.com</a>). Please let me know your suggestions. thanks in advance. Thanks Sekhar Reddy P R <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Alain Williams <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:addw@phcomp.co.uk">addw@phcomp.co.uk</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 class="im">On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:09:10AM +0200, Andreas Ericsson wrote: > edward baddouh wrote: > > Yes, I want the configuration files to be worse (readable). > > The idea is to difficult as-much-as-possible config-files theft from ohter > > people who admin that server.. > > > > There have been times that configuration files were implemented on different > > installations (different sites) with minor changes without the admin's > > consent.. > > > > I don't want nobody to get credits for work I've done and receive no profit > > at all.. > > > > This is just stupid imo and would be far better solved with some social > conventions. The problem is that there's a limited way of configuring > Nagios for a particular setup, so it's always entirely possible that > whoever you *think* is "stealing" configuration from you has actually > read the nagios docs for 15-30 minutes and then figured out how to do > it themselves. It's not exactly rocket science, and a nagios config > isn't a super-fast cryptographically secure hash algorithm that you > (sometimes) need to jealously protect. The fact that you're trying > makes me feel dirty all over, to be honest. > > Why you want an opensource community help you *not* share your work, > I really do not fathom, but you'll get absolutely no help from me. </div> +1 And who knows ... one of the people who takes your config might improve it and tell you how! -- Alain Williams Linux/GNU Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programmer, IT Lecturer. +44 (0) 787 668 0256 <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.phcomp.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.phcomp.co.uk/</a> Parliament Hill Computers Ltd. 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