Nagios Alert Emailer

Project Notes

This script is a direct replacement for the basic Nagios emailer.

This perl script provides the following features:
* Allows you to specify the senders email address
* Allows you to specify the destination email address/group
* Allows you to differentiate between Host and Service outages
* Allows you to connect directly to any SMTP server
* Doesn't require any local sendmail configuration
* Uses standard Net::SMTP module
* Runs within Nagios's embedded perl interpreter
* Allows you to format the alert message subject and body
* Allows you to send emails to different alert groups based on nagios configuration
Configuration steps --------------

I put this in the nagios plugins directory /usr/local/nagios/libexec but you can put it anywhere.

commands.cfg
---
define command{

command_name notify-by-email
command_line $USER1$/send_mail.pl -n "$NOTIFICATIONTYPE$" -h "$HOSTNAME$" -s "$HOSTSTATE$" -a "$HOSTADDRESS$" -i "$HOSTOUTPUT$" -d "$LONGDATETIME$" -e "$CONTACTEMAIL$"

}
define command{

command_name host-notify-by-email
command_line $USER1$/send_mail.pl -n "HOST $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$" -h "$HOSTNAME$" -s "$HOSTSTATE$" -a "$HOSTADDRESS$" -i "$HOSTOUTPUT$" -d "$LONGDATETIME$" -e "$CONTACTEMAIL$"

}
define command{

command_name service-notify-by-email
command_line $USER1$/send_mail.pl -n "SERVICE $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$" -h "$HOSTNAME$" -s "$SERVICESTATE$" -a "$HOSTADDRESS$" -i "$SERVICEDESC$ - $SERVICEOUTPUT$ - $SERVICECHECKCOMMAND$" -d "$LONGDATETIME$" -e "$CONTACTEMAIL$"

}

contacts.cfg
---
define contact{

contact_name contact
host_notification_commands host-notify-by-email
service_notification_commands service-notify-by-email
email [email protected]
.... rest of contact details ....

}