Hi Matt I tried the following from the command line:
echo "test 1" | mail -s "test 1" contactem...@whatever I tried giving my email address but i am not receiving any mail. Let me know what else i need to provide to make it work. Thanks Jatin On 3/3/2010 10:42 PM, Matt Simmons wrote: > By default, at the top of your commands.cfg file, you'll see things > like "notify-host-by-email" and "notify-service-by-email". Those are > commands that work in conjunction with the configuration specified in > contacts.cfg. > > Essentially, all of your services and hosts have or inherit a > "contact_groups" setting. That group name should be in contacts.cfg, > and it should have all of the appropriate contacts listed in it. > (see Nagios Object Definitions for more info: > http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objectdefinitions.html ) > > Assuming this is the case, and Nagios starts correctly without a > configuration error, there's probably an issue with your mail. Check > the email address that you have for your contacts. Is it correct? > > Assuming so, can you send an email from the command line? Try > > echo "test 1" | mail -s "test 1" contactem...@whatever > > If you receive the email, but Nagios still doesn't send it, make sure > that you are able to run 'sendmail' as the nagios user (aside: people > who know more than me: does Nagios invoke sendmail as the default > MTA?). > > I'm going to guess that you can't send mail from the command line > either, and that's probably because your MTA isn't setup correctly. > Check your /var/log/maillog and your Sendmail (or postfix if you're > lucky) configuration. > > For better advice, I'd need more info on what was going wrong, > according to the results of the test and the log output. > > Good Luck. > > --Matt > > > On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 7:59 AM, Jatin Davey<jasho...@cisco.com> wrote: > >> I had a requirement to monitor Java process on my windows server and >> send an email if it goes down. >> I have achieved adding the monitoring of java process on my nagios setup >> , i have no clue what to do get nagios send notifications. >> Anyone knows please let me know the steps involved. >> >> Thanks >> Jatin >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval >> Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs >> proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. >> See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev >> _______________________________________________ >> Nagios-users mailing list >> Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users >> ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting >> any issue. >> ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null >> >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null