Thanks for both ideas. Will see which fits best!
Kenneth.
-----Original Message----- From: Clark, Sean [mailto:sean.clark at twcable.com] Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 8:20 AM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [xymon] on call rotation
Another way to accomplish this, although outside of xymon, is to have a mail alias setup
That is the method we took - mainly because other people outside of xymon can also send an email to "alias"@domain.com
So your rules are
HOST=blabla MAIL=oncall at domain.com
And then outside on the SMTP server for domain.com, we setup aliases that rotate to the correct people
Not really using xymon in a clever way, but this worked in our setup, especially with other people being able to just email Oncall at domain.com and getting the oncall person
-Sean
On 1/31/11 5:53 AM, "Henrik Størner" <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:
In <DB352625B11C7B449262DE382AD536C539A3C0C68D at maserati.cars.ad> Kenneth Falor <kenneth.falor at fcer.com> writes:
Greetings, my company has a 5 person on call rotation that we just started.= Up to now only 1 person was paged if something went down, I would like to = modify xymon to allow it to change who is emailed/paged based on the week a= nd who is on call that week. Is this possible?
It's not built into Xymon, but fairly trivial to do with some creative configuration of the alerts.cfg (hobbit-alerts.cfg in current versions).
Your alert configuration probably has
HOST=blabla MAIL joe at example.com
So poor Joe gets all the alerts. Instead, I would do this:
include oncall.cfg
HOST=blabla MAIL $ONCALL
and in the oncall.cfg I would put
$ONCALL=joe at example.com
Then you can update the oncall.cfg file when the on-call person changes - via cron, manually, or via some basic script/webpage that you setup. Xymon will automatically pick up when the file changes.
Regards, Henrik
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