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[matt-urrlRJtNKRMsHrnhXWJB8w at public.gmane.org (Matt Shields)]

On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Matt Shields <matt-urrlRJtNKRMsHrnhXWJB8w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Chandler, Scott <
> Scott.Chandler-VQAUrahS1b5BDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I'm new to the list so I'm not sure if this is the proper place to post
>> questions like this. If not, please let me know the right place.
>>
>> We're using Nagios to monitor our equipment. It sends alerts through a
>> locally installed copy of sendmail to our (end user) email server which then
>> goes out to a pager. If the email server goes down, it won't do much good to
>> send the alert to that server so I need an alternate alert which sends email
>> through an outside address.
>>
>> Does anyone know the syntax for the mail command to send to a different
>> SMTP server? It looks like there are a couple ways to do this, use the
>> account switch, use an alternate .mailrc/mail.rc file, maybe more.
>>
>> Ideally, I'd like to have a standalone command without using a config file
>> or script.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Scott
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>
> We had this issue years ago where our mail server died and we didn't know
> about it till the next morning.  For this reason we configured our Nagios
> box to have it's own mail server running on it.  The main Nagios box
> monitors all services in the datacenter, but we also have a remote Nagios
> box monitoring the main one (and the core routers and firewalls of the
> datacenter and a few other critical services), so we know if there is a
> problem with the main Nagios box or with our main datacenter.  This second
> Nagios box also runs it's own mail server.
>
> -matt
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>
>
I should clarify this a bit.  The local sendmail has aliases for all our
pagers, so besides our corporate mail getting sent from locally to our main
mailserver, the pages go directly from the nagios box to the destination
mailserver or our email to sms gateway or our cell provider.  The pages do
not get relayed through the main mailserver.

-matt
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