create contacts in nagios

create contacts in nagios

# Edit the following file on nagios controller
# 

# add an entry like

define contact {

    contact_name            user_nick_name
    use                     generic-contact
    alias                   Realtebo
    email                   [email protected]
}

# Then in one of your service definition, send notification changing the service notification as followed
# note: use 'alias', is case sensitive, separate entries using commas

define service {
        .....
        contacts                nagiosadmin, Realtebo
        .....
}

# Always test before apply changes !

cd /usr/local/nagios
sudo bin/nagios -v etc/nagios.cfg

# Restart service

sudo systemctl restart nagios