Hi all, <div><br></div><div>I'm very new to nagios. I followed this blog to set up the smtp server for sending emails : <a href="http://danxlog.blogspot.in/2010/07/nagios-use-external-smtp-server-to-send.html">http://danxlog.blogspot.in/2010/07/nagios-use-external-smtp-server-to-send.html</a>.</div>
<div><br></div><div>But that doesn't seem to be working for me. I have my /usr/local/nagios/etc/resource.cfg file as :</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>$USER1$=/usr/local/nagios/libexec</div><div><br></div>
<div>$USER5$=<a href="http://smtp.gmail.com:587">smtp.gmail.com:587</a></div><div><br></div><div>$USER9$=<a href="mailto:myaccount@gmail.com">myaccount@gmail.com</a></div><div>$USER10$=mypassword</div></div><div><br></div>
<div>And in my commands file I added these two as said in the blog post :</div><div><br></div><div><div>define command{</div><div>                command_name notify-host-by-email</div><div>                command_line /usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios *****\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\nHost: $HOSTNAME$\nState: $HOSTSTATE$\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nInfo: $HOSTOUTPUT$\n\nDate/Time: $LONGDATETIME$\n" | /usr/local/bin/sendEmail -s $USER7$ -t $CONTACTEMAIL$ -f $USER5$ -l /var/log/sendEmail -u "** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ Host Alert: $HOSTNAME$ is $HOSTSTATE$ **" -m "***** Nagios *****\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\nHost: $HOSTNAME$\nState: $HOSTSTATE$\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nInfo: $HOSTOUTPUT$\n\nDate/Time: $LONGDATETIME$\n"</div>
<div>         }</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>define command{</div><div>        command_name notify-service-by-email</div><div>        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$SERVICEOUTPUT$" | /usr/local/bin/sendEmail -s $USER7$ -t $CONTACTEMAIL$ -f $USER5$ -l /var/log/sendEmail -u "** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ Service Alert: $HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ is $SERVICESTATE$ **" -m "***** Nagios *****\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\n\nService: $SERVICEDESC$\nHost: $HOSTALIAS$\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nState: $SERVICESTATE$\n\nDate/Time: $LONGDATETIME$\n\nAdditional Info:\n\n$SERVICEOUTPUT$"</div>
<div> }</div></div><div><br></div><div>I restarted it. But it seems to be working! Can anyone help in this regard?</div>