5 May
2022
5 May
'22
1:36 p.m.
Here's my Slack Alert instructions. http://www.krisspringer.com/posts/xymon-slack-alerts.php
Kris Springer
On 5/4/22 11:47, Josh Luthman wrote:
Kris,
I would love to see Slack alerts if you wouldn't mind.
On Wed, May 4, 2022 at 12:54 PM Kris Springer <kspringer at innovateteam.com> wrote:
Here's some details of how I send email alerts. They're completely customizable.? Hope it helps. http://www.krisspringer.com/posts/xymon-email-alerts.php I have since switched to Slack alerts instead of emails, but those are a bit more complex. Let me know if you want instructions for that. Kris Springer On 5/4/22 09:38, Adam Thorn wrote: > On 04/05/2022 12:22, Jonathan Bishop wrote: >> Hello fellow xymoners, >> >> I have recently setup monitoring of the existence of files in a >> particular directory, and this seems to be working well. When I setup >> an alert for a "red" condition, I receive an email message with what >> appears to be some html tags within it, eg: >> >> ?? ? ? &red <a >> href="/xymon-cgi/svcstatus.sh?CLIENT=myserver.com <http://myserver.com>&SECTION=file:/path/to/myfile">/path/to/myfile</a> >> ?? ? ? File is a? - should be file >> >> I have tried setting the alert "FORMAT" to TEXT, PLAIN and SMS, but >> this doesn't seem to have any effect. I have also tried sending the >> alert through the html_mail.pl <http://html_mail.pl> extension scripts, and this doesn't >> seem to have any effect either. All I really want is a plain text >> message, which is easy to read. Does anyone know how I could clean >> this up? >> >> Example Alert Config: >> HOST=myserver.com <http://myserver.com> >> ?? ? ? ? MAIL alerts at someone.who.cares.com REPEAT=240m COLOR=red >> FORMAT=TEXT > > This may be a red herring, but I wonder if you could try changing the > order of the different parts of the config line to e.g. > > HOST=myserver.com <http://myserver.com> COLOR=red MAIL alerts at someone.who.cares.com > FORMAT=TEXT REPEAT=240m > > Quoting selectively from the stock comments at the top of my > alerts.cfg file .... > > This file is made up from RULES and RECIPIENTS. > A RULE is a filter made from ... (etc etc) > A RECIPIENT can be a MAIL address, or a SCRIPT. Recipients can also > have rules associated with them... > > ..so for your rule, HOST and COLOR constitute the "RULE", MAIL is the > "RECIPIENT", and REPEAT and FORMAT then modify the "RECIPIENT". Your > rule mixes together tokens from the RULE and RECIPIENT parts, which > might lead to the config rule not being parsed properly. > > (Or maybe this is nonsense and the order doesn't matter here; I > suspect it would take a careful reading of the source to see how the > different tokens in that config file get parsed) > > Adam > _______________________________________________ > Xymon mailing list > Xymon at xymon.com > http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon _______________________________________________ Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon