> -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Friedrich [mailto:michael.friedr...@gmail.com] > Sent: 13 January 2013 21:21 > To: icinga-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [icinga-users] Icinga sends email to $@itpassion.com > > On 13.01.2013 20:50, Guus Leeuw jr wrote: > > Michael, > > > > Having left debugging on for the day, I can confirm that > > $CONTACTEMAIL$ seems to be a problem for some services: > > > > [1358064635.395239] [256.1] [pid=971] Running command '/usr/bin/printf > "%b" > > "***** Icinga *****\n\nNotification Type: \n\nService: Check Apponotec > > Windows Updates\nHost: Apponotec FIA-CORE1\nAddress: > 82.153.129.66\nState: > > UNKNOWN\n\nDate/Time: Sun Jan 13 08:10:35 GMT 2013\n\nAdditional > > Info:\n\nCHECK_NRPE: Received 0 bytes from daemon. Check the remote > > server logs for error messages.\n" | /bin/mail -s "** Service Alert: > > Apponotec FIA-CORE1/Check Apponotec Windows Updates is UNKNOWN > **" $CONTACTEMAIL$'... > > Matching that with the given config > > define command { > command_name notify-service-by-email > command_line /usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Icinga > *****\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\n\nService: > $SERVICEDESC$\nHost: $HOSTALIAS$\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nState: > $SERVICESTATE$\n\nDate/Time: $LONGDATETIME$\n\nAdditional > Info:\n\n$SERVICEOUTPUT$\n" | /bin/mail -s "** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ > Service > Alert: $HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ is $SERVICESTATE$ **" > $CONTACTEMAIL$ > register 1 > } > > you can extract all the details to look for your host and service affected, and > then look up the config for the service definition. Likely there's are contacts > missing. Question aside - during config verification of Icinga core, it should > warn about hosts/services with no contacts defined - is that the case?
It normally has 0 errors and 0 warnings from a NagioSQL point of view. Icinga core verification: Icinga 1.6.1 Copyright (c) 2009-2011 Icinga Development Team (http://www.icinga.org) Copyright (c) 2009-2011 Nagios Core Development Team and Community Contributors Copyright (c) 1999-2009 Ethan Galstad Last Modified: 12-02-2011 License: GPL Reading configuration data... Read main config file okay... Processing object config file '/usr/local/icinga/etc/commands.cfg'... Processing object config file '/usr/local/icinga/etc/contactgroups.cfg'... Processing object config file '/usr/local/icinga/etc/contacts.cfg'... Processing object config file '/usr/local/icinga/etc/contacttemplates.cfg'... Processing object config file '/usr/local/icinga/etc/hostdependencies.cfg'... Processing object config file '/usr/local/icinga/etc/hostescalations.cfg'... Processing object config file '/usr/local/icinga/etc/hostextinfo.cfg'... Processing object config file '/usr/local/icinga/etc/hostgroups.cfg'... Processing object config file '/usr/local/icinga/etc/hosttemplates.cfg'... Processing object config file '/usr/local/icinga/etc/servicedependencies.cfg'... Processing object config file '/usr/local/icinga/etc/serviceescalations.cfg'... Processing object config file '/usr/local/icinga/etc/serviceextinfo.cfg'... Processing object config file '/usr/local/icinga/etc/servicegroups.cfg'... Processing object config file '/usr/local/icinga/etc/servicetemplates.cfg'... Processing object config file '/usr/local/icinga/etc/timeperiods.cfg'... Processing object config directory '/usr/local/icinga/etc/hosts'... Processing object config file '/usr/local/icinga/etc/hosts/imap.us.itpassion.com.cfg'... Processing object config file '/usr/local/icinga/etc/hosts/development.london.itpassion.co.uk.cfg'... Processing object config file '/usr/local/icinga/etc/hosts/webdev.london.itpassion.co.uk.cfg'... Processing object config file '/usr/local/icinga/etc/hosts/bastion.london.itpassion.co.uk.cfg'... Processing object config file '/usr/local/icinga/etc/hosts/team.itpassion.com.cfg'... Processing object config file '/usr/local/icinga/etc/hosts/icinga.london.itpassion.co.uk.cfg'... Processing object config file '/usr/local/icinga/etc/hosts/FIA-CORE1.cfg'... Processing object config file '/usr/local/icinga/etc/hosts/email.us.itpassion.com.cfg'... Processing object config file '/usr/local/icinga/etc/hosts/database.london.itpassion.co.uk.cfg'... Processing object config file '/usr/local/icinga/etc/hosts/www.london.itpassion.co.uk.cfg'... Processing object config file '/usr/local/icinga/etc/hosts/smtp.us.itpassion.com.cfg'... Processing object config file '/usr/local/icinga/etc/hosts/logger.london.itpassion.co.uk.cfg'... Processing object config directory '/usr/local/icinga/etc/services'... Processing object config file '/usr/local/icinga/etc/services/imp_nrpe.cfg'... Processing object config file '/usr/local/icinga/etc/services/imp_nrpe_win.cfg'... Processing object config file '/usr/local/icinga/etc/services/imp_cyrus.cfg'... Processing object config file '/usr/local/icinga/etc/services/imp_http.cfg'... Processing object config file '/usr/local/icinga/etc/services/imp_mysql.cfg'... Processing object config file '/usr/local/icinga/etc/services/imp_nrpe_apponotec_win.cfg'... Processing object config file '/usr/local/icinga/etc/services/imp_localhost.cfg'... Processing object config directory '/usr/local/icinga/etc/modules'... Processing object config file '/usr/local/icinga/etc/modules/idoutils.cfg'... Read object config files okay... Running pre-flight check on configuration data... Checking services... Checked 95 services. Checking hosts... Checked 12 hosts. Checking host groups... Checked 2 host groups. Checking service groups... Checked 3 service groups. Checking contacts... Checked 4 contacts. Checking contact groups... Checked 4 contact groups. Checking service escalations... Checked 0 service escalations. Checking service dependencies... Checked 22 service dependencies. Checking host escalations... Checked 0 host escalations. Checking host dependencies... Checked 0 host dependencies. Checking commands... Checked 46 commands. Checking time periods... Checked 4 time periods. Checking modules... Checked 1 modules. Checking for circular paths between hosts... Checking for circular host and service dependencies... Checking global event handlers... Checking obsessive compulsive processor commands... Checking misc settings... Total Warnings: 0 Total Errors: 0 Things look okay - No serious problems were detected during the pre-flight check > > > [...] > > > > So, I'll go through them and make sure that there is a contact email > > available for Icinga in the command / service / generic service definitions. > > > > Would I need to have these services against a person or is a contact > > group good enough for Icinga 1.6.1 to figure out $CONTACTEMAIL$? > > A contactgroup consists of contactgroup members (contacts), so Icinga will > figure out who to notify if you just put a contactgroup instead of a single > contact to your service definition. This behaviour is part of the notification > event, also checking if a contact is viable to be notified (notification_period, > etc). > > So you're safe after fixing your configuration in 1.6.x - that being said, you > probably now figure why that change was made to 1.8 - it will remove the > macrostring, not sending any mail (and your (mail) log will alarm you that the > command invocation to /bin/mail is missing a recipient too), as well as the > core will output a warning to syslog that this happened. It may be annoying > as f*ck, but better fix the configs in the first place, before hunting this > 'feature' down ;-) Totally agree. [...] Regards, Guus ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. 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