Nagios xi 2011R2.4 No Email Alerts

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JasonMagee
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Nagios xi 2011R2.4 No Email Alerts

Post by JasonMagee »

We currently have a nagios core server running in our production environment. I am now attempting to configure our new nagiosxi server to take over this role. I cannot figure out why email alerts are not being sent though. I am able to send test emails from the system though. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
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lmiltchev
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Re: Nagios xi 2011R2.4 No Email Alerts

Post by lmiltchev »

Are you using our VMWare VM? It is possible that you don't have a mail server installed. Try running in terminal:

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which mail
If you can't find mail, run:

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yum install -y mailx
Since, you are migration from Core, please, review our documentation on Users and Contacts in Nagios xi:

http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagi ... ntacts.pdf

Hope this helps.
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JasonMagee
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Re: Nagios xi 2011R2.4 No Email Alerts

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We are using the vmWare VM. I got back the following when running "which mail"
/usr/bin/which: no mail in (/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin)

Regarding contacts is it done differently than in the Core product?
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Re: Nagios xi 2011R2.4 No Email Alerts

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You should be able to do the following

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yum install mailx -y
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JasonMagee
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Re: Nagios xi 2011R2.4 No Email Alerts

Post by JasonMagee »

Awesome. That worked! Thank you.