One user and multiple email-addresses

[bookweb]

Hi,
we use cacti with threshold to monitor lots of cisco router with cisco ip sla.
Under plans being considered we will have a group of four admins to monitor this systems. There is an user called "alarm", which gets notification messages. If we increase the amount of admins, I would not change all thresholds by hand, because of a fifth admin would join the team next year, I would have to do this again and again.

Is it possible to have one single user (alarm) with four email addresses? Or any other possibility?

Thanks,
Christian

[chrisgapske]

It could be done in cacti but maybe it would be better done in your mail server. say cacti-admin1@yourcompany.com than just have it send emails to all of your admins. Than just manage your email group changing it when nessary. If you have a need to create diffrent groups for diffrent thold triggers you can do cacti-admin2,3,4,5@yourcompany.com I think you will get a resolution doing what you want this way much faster than the programming it into the plugin.

I like the idea just not enough of a programmer to do it myself.

[phakesley]

We use Cacti to send emails to various groups. If your Cacti is on a Linux box it is straight forward.

Create a user e.g. distgroup1 in cacti.

Edit /etc/aliases

and add

distgroup1: user1@company1.com, user2@company1.com etc.

It works for us.

[phakesley]

P.s. orgot to mention you need to update sendmail afterwards.

/usr/lib/sendmail -bi

Regards, Pete

[cigamit]

Create a distribution list on your mail server, this is not something you should do in cacti.

[phakesley]

Why not?

[cigamit]

Cacti does not have the concept of groups.

In retrospect, why don't you threshold templates, and then you only have to change the templates if an admin leaves.