# Problem setting up email notification (mail-host-notification) **URL:** \ **Category:** Icinga Director\ **Created:** [May 18, 2022, 1:59pm UTC](https://community.icinga.com/t/problem-setting-up-email-notification-mail-host-notification/9857 "2022-05-18T13:59:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![glober](https://community.icinga.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/67e7ee/32.png) [@glober](https://community.icinga.com/u/glober)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2022, 1:59pm UTC](https://community.icinga.com/t/problem-setting-up-email-notification-mail-host-notification/9857/1 "2022-05-18T13:59:59Z")
Hello, I am currently configuring email notification on an Icinga 2 server, but run into a problem on the final step. After spending lots of hours troubleshooting, I hope that I can get some external input as I have no clue what exactly is the problem. To begin with: I have made sure that the server itself is able to sent outbound email from the CLI. Therefore I have configured mutt as root and run the following command to check if its working: ```auto /usr/bin/printf "This is the body text" | mutt \ -e "set content_type=text/html" \ -s "This is the subject" \ my@mailaddress.com ``` A few seconds later I can see this email in my inbox - so no problem. Then I have edited the mailscript /etc/icinga2/scripts/mail-host-notification.sh and changed it, so that the above command can send the email: ```auto [...] #Do not remove -e 'my_hdr From:', This is used for setting 'from' address in mutt /usr/bin/printf "%b" "$template" | mutt -e "set content_type=text/html" -e 'my_hdr From:Icinga Monitoring' -s "$NOTIFICATIONTYPE - $HOSTDISPLAYNAME is $HOSTSTATE" $USEREMAIL [...] ``` Then I followed this guide ( [https://andreas.scherbaum.la/blog/archives/1101-How-to-configure-notifications-in-Icinga2-Director.html](https://andreas.scherbaum.la/blog/archives/1101-How-to-configure-notifications-in-Icinga2-Director.html) ) to create: 1. a time period “always” in: Icinga Director → Timeperiods → Timeperiods 2. a user template “generic-director-user-template” in: Icinga Director → Users/Contacts → User Templates and addes all states and transition types 3. a new user with the same email, which I tested as recipient in CLI before in: Icinga Director → Users/Contacts → Users/Contacts 4. Checked external commands for mail-host-notification in: Icinga Director → Commands → External Commands and made sure that it points to the correct file located at: /etc/icinga2/scripts/mail-host-notification.sh 5. Created a notification template “host-notification-default-template” in: Icinga Director → Notifications → Notification Templates and pointed it to the external notification command (mail-host-notification) and addes states and transition types 6. Created a “host notification” in: Icinga Director → Notifications → Notifications and importing the notification template and added the created user and set “Apply to” to Hosts and configuring the time period which I created. Additionally I set Assign where to “host enable\_notifications = is true (or set)” If I now click on deployment I get an error in the deployment log. If I disable the created host notification which I created in step 6 by setting Disabled to True the deployment run will work. ```auto [2022-05-18 14:51:38 +0200] information/cli: Icinga application loader (version: 2.13.0-1) [2022-05-18 14:51:38 +0200] information/cli: Loading configuration file(s). [2022-05-18 14:51:38 +0200] information/ConfigItem: Committing config item(s). [2022-05-18 14:51:38 +0200] information/ApiListener: My API identity: vsrv-icinga-4.intern.DOMAIN.COM [2022-05-18 14:51:39 +0200] critical/config: Error: Validation failed for object 'ITSWI02!E-Mails (Hosts)' of type 'Notification'; Attribute 'command': Object 'mail-host-notification' of type 'NotificationCommand' does not exist. Location: in [stage]/zones.d/master/notification_templates.conf: 2:5-2:38 [stage]/zones.d/master/notification_templates.conf(1): template Notification "Notification Template E-Mail Host" { [stage]/zones.d/master/notification_templates.conf(2): command = "mail-host-notification" ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ [stage]/zones.d/master/notification_templates.conf(3): states = [Down, Up] ``` I have looked into /var/lib/icinga2/api/zones/master/director/notification\_templates.conf ```auto template Notification "host-notification-default-template" { command = "mail-host-notification" states = [Down, Up] types = [ Acknowledgement, Custom, DowntimeEnd, DowntimeRemoved, DowntimeStart, FlappingEnd, FlappingStart, Problem, Recovery ] } template Notification "E-Mail (Service)" { command = "mail-service-notification" states = [Critical, OK, Unknown, Warning] types = [ Acknowledgement, Custom, DowntimeEnd, DowntimeRemoved, DowntimeStart, FlappingEnd, FlappingStart, Problem, Recovery ] } ``` If I do a locate lookup just for mail-host-notification I only get the following results: /etc/icinga2/scripts/mail-host-notification.sh Am I maybe missing a file which links the command “mail-host-notification” to the script located at /etc/icinga2/scripts/mail-host-notification.sh ? Any suggestions would be helpfull. Kind regards from germany - Pit ---
**Author:** ![rivad](https://community.icinga.com/user_avatar/community.icinga.com/rivad/32/5852_2.png) [@rivad](https://community.icinga.com/u/rivad)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2022, 4:25pm UTC](https://community.icinga.com/t/problem-setting-up-email-notification-mail-host-notification/9857/2 "2022-05-18T16:25:30Z")
Welcome @glober Try to create a new mail-host-notification command and use the external command as import. Maybe rerun the “Director Kickstart Wizard”. Also if you check if a mail can be send on the cli it would be wise to not do this as root but as the user icinga runs under.