nagios postfix

[Phil Dobbin]

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On 30/03/2012 11:27, Niels Dettenbach wrote:

> Am Freitag, 30. März 2012, 08:08:10 schrieben Sie:
>> As you say, cranking up large structures like postfix, procmail, etc
>> just to basically send a few emails is not desirable if one can help
>> it. msmtp is a splendid program (available on Mac Ports I found too)
>> which is more than adequate for my needs at present.
> 
> ...just in addition:
> 
> I've checked some msmtp docs 
> http://msmtp.sourceforge.net/
> and it will (!) fullfill your nagios regquirements (similiar to ssmtp i've worked often with too).
> 
> Nagios' Email stuff could be fitted typically in commands.cfg as i.e.:
> 
> 
> # 'notify-host-by-email' command definition (example)
> 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" | /bin/mail -s "$
>         }
> 
> where "/bin/mail" should be substituted by the similiar msmtp command. 
> 
> Take a note about the "-s" switch - afair there is no such switch for defining a "Subject:" by option on msmtp - it might expect such things as part of your message "file" / pipe output generated by printf in this example)
> 
> 
> You may do something like (not tested):
> 
> printf "%b" "Subject: This is my testsubject\n \n and this the message body\n" | /usr/bin/msmtp your_email at your_domain
> 
> As you can see it is fully on your's what type of commands and things you want to do with nagios - email is just one of many options - nagios rocks! ~ß)

Thanks, Niels.

That's really helpful & very appreciated.

I'm steadily working through my home LAN (six machines) & three remote
VPS boxes & Nagios is going to be a great addition to the toolkit. It
really is very customizable & flexible & quite a lot of reading to start
with but that'll help me get the email side of things going.

Once again, thanks,

Cheers,

  Phil...

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