Nagios Core Administration Cookbook

Creating a new e-mail contact

In this recipe, we'll create a new contact with which hosts and services can interact, chiefly to inform them of hosts or services changing states. We'll use the simplest example of setting up an e-mail contact, and configuring an existing host so that this person receives an e-mail message when Nagios Core's host checks fail and the host is apparently unreachable. In this instance, I'll make it e-mail me at [e-mail] whenever my host, sparta.naginet, goes from DOWN to UP state, or vice-versa.

Getting ready

You should have a working Nagios Core 3.0 or greater server running, with a web interface and at least one host to check. If you need to do this first, see the Creating a new network host recipe in this ...