Multiple email addresses for system alerts

[Robert Abbott]

I have just returned from vacation to find my Sys Admin has unexpectedly left the company. I need to change the email that system alerts are sent to. I would like to send the alerts to more than one person. Can someone tell me where to change the addresses? The system is an HP 9000.

Thanks!

[John Poff]

Hi,

Take a look at your /etc/mail/aliases file. Here we assign aliases for the three of us and our boss for root, and we create other aliases for groups of people that need notifications as well. Once you've updated the aliases file just issue the 'newaliases' command and your sendmail should start using the new aliases.

JP

[Cheryl Griffin · Accepted solution]

Robert -
See KBRC00012166 in the Knowledge Base.

It shows you how to set up mail aliases (in case that needs to be updated) and monconfig to set up the EMS email address for notification.

[RAC_1]

It could at different places. IF you were forwarding the emails to smart relay (and it was using a alias for sysadmin group), you need to modify it there.

But most probaly, it is using /etc/mail/aliases file. Just vi it and define a alias as follows.

root : root, xyz@abc.com, abc@aabc.com

do newliases.

This will send the emails to root, and above two addresses.

Anil

[Robert Abbott]

Thanks guys, I will check the /etc/mail/aliases. Does the change take effect instantly or does the mail daemon need to be restarted?

[Sanjay_6]

Hi,

If you change the aliases file, you need to issue the "newaliases" command to apply the change. This can be done on the fly. It applies the current aliases file.

Hope this helps.

Regds

[Cheryl Griffin]

The answer to the EMS config question is to use moncheck to see if it has been updated.

[Robert Abbott]

Thanks everyone. I saw the answer to my second question in the link Cheryl gave too.

[Robert Abbott]

Fixed.