Adding emails alerts to additional email addresses for specific services or hosts

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It may be desired to send nagios alerts for specific services to different email IDs. To achieve that edit '/etc/nagios/objects/contacts.cfg' file to create new contact and contactgroup. Example configuration is:

define contact{
        contact_name                    nagiosadmin             ; Short name of user
        use                             generic-contact         ; Inherit default values from generic-contact template (defined above)
        alias                           Nagios Admin            ; Full name of user
        email logs@admin.sbarjatiya.com
        }

define contact{
        contact_name                    softwareengineer                ; Short name of user
        use                             generic-contact         ; Inherit default values from generic-contact template (defined above)
        alias                           Software Engineer          ; Full name of user
        email se@admin.sbarjatiya.com
        }


define contactgroup{
        contactgroup_name       admins
        alias                   Nagios Administrators
        members                 nagiosadmin
        }

define contactgroup{
        contactgroup_name       engineers
        alias                   Software engineers and administrators
        members                 nagiosadmin, softwareengineer
        }

Then for any of the services use "contact_groups <group-name>" configuration to send emails to alternate group:

define service{
   use generic-service;
   host_name qaweb
   service_description Disk space
   check_command check_nrpe!check_disk
   notifications_enabled 1
   contact_groups  engineers
}

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