Hello.
i wanna send email notifications when the servers' services gone down. i have installed nagios successfully in ubuntu 9.10.
in the contacts.cfg, i added this :
define contact{
contact_name nagiosadmin ; Short name of user
use generic-contact ; Inherit default values from generic-contact template (defined above)
alias Nagios Admin ; Full name of user
host_notifications_enabled 1
service_notifications_enabled 1
host_notification_period 24x7
service_notification_options w,u,c,r
host_notification_options d,u,r
service_notification_commands notify-service-by-email
host_notification_commands notify-host-by-email
email
myemail@hotmail.com
}
for the contacts_group in contacts.cfg, i add this :
define contactgroup {
contactgroup_name admins
alias Nagios Administrators
members nagiosadmin
}
for the windows.cfg, i added this:
define host{
use generic-host
host_name qauser-863c2d42
alias qauser-863c2d42
address 172.20.130.71
check_command check-host-alive
max_check_attempts 10
notification_interval 120
notification_period 24x7
notification_options d,u,r
contact_groups admins
notifications_enabled 1
}
in commands.cfg, i changed the /bin/mail to the following:
# 'notify-host-by-email' command definition
define command{
command_name notify-host-by-email
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/bin/mail -s "** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ Host Alert: $HOSTNAME$ is $HOSTSTATE$ **" $CONTACTEMAIL$
}
# 'notify-service-by-email' command definition
define command{
command_name notify-service-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$SERVICEOUTPUT$" | /usr/bin/mail -s "** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ Service Alert: $HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ is $SERVICESTATE$ **" $CONTACTEMAIL$
}
i have installed postfix too..
what else am i missing? i cant receive email in my email inbox even though the services of the windows server which i'm monitoring are down...
p/s: i have googled for countless of times..it seems i'm on the right track, but what doesn't it work?
please help, thanks lots.
