-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 10/08/08 01:18 PM, Chetan Mahadev wrote: > Hi Alex, > > Thanks for the quick inputs! > > I am aware that nagios can send e-mails. > But I had few doubts regarding the email feature.. > How does Nagios send emails? Does it internally support an SMTP server?? > I am asking this question specifically because, if we go ahead with > approach advised by you ( RT or OTRS), does a SMTP server come to picture?
You will usually have a local smtp server (sendmail, postfix) that will work on it's own or use a smart relay. There are likely commands/utility that will connect directly to a remote SMTP server too. Nagios does not know anything about SMTP, it just runs commands. Make a command or script that sent your emails and just set it up in Nagios. FYI in my setups Nagios have it own SMTP server so that if the mail system does down we can still alert about it. In addition we also pull contact emails automatically from Active Directory groups, so we don't have to play with configuration files every time something changes. - -- Thomas -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFInyYK6dZ+Kt5BchYRAg3oAKDkBI8XIZUSAr1B/RyVYXuQyvnKrACgjyGf 2JeNZ+w3z1X0nTXvNKAOUJM= =Ymtq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ 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
