Nagios Contacts

Viewing Nagios Contacts and contact groups

To view currently configured Nagios contacts:

  1. log into the Nagios web interface as nagiosadmin.

  2. On the left hand menu, select Configuration under System.

  3. Select either the Contacts Object Type to see configured contacts or Contact Groups to see the configured groups of contacts.

Editing Nagios Contacts

To edit contacts or contact groups:

  1. SSH into the Nagios host using the login details available in Keeper

  2. Nagios is in /usr/local/nagios with configuration of objects within /usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/

  3. Within that directory, edit contacts.cfg

  4. restart the Nagios service: sudo service nagios reload

  5. Check changes in the web interface as above