Devmon embeds a bunch of HTML markup that doesn't work so well in a text email. The "PLAIN" format is the same as "TEXT" but simply omits the link to the Xymon server - no clean-up will be done on HTML markup within the status page, so any status with a table (pretty much anything from devmon) will give you this problem.

You can use "SCRIPT /path/to/script RECIPIENT" and then do whatever clean-up you wish inside the script. Perhaps something like (untested):

#!/bin/sh sed 's/<[^<]*>//g;s/^&//;/^Alarming on/d;/^$/d' | /usr/bin/mailx -s "$BBALPHAMSG" $RCPT

See http://www.xymon.com/xymon/help/xymon-alerts.html#scripts for more details on using scripts, including an example.

J

On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 7:12 AM, <kconnell at ryerson.ca> wrote:

Not sure is this is a devmon question, or xymon, but figured I try here first.

I have a table built/displayed on xymon via devmon for temperature on our L2 stacks.

The issue is when a "red" event happens and an email is sent, the format of the email is just horrible.

I've tried adding "FORMAT=PLAIN" within the alerts.cfg for that particular event, but I don't really see a change.

Is there any way to make the email body a little nicer ??

Below is an example of the email content:

red Thu May 24 17:57:23 2012

Alarming on (53.50,53.50,49.00,49.00,49.00,49.00,49.50,49.50,45.50,45.50,46.50) Alarming on (46.50,46.50,46.50) <table border=1 cellpadding=5> <tr><td>Unit Temperature</td></tr> <tr><td>&red 53.50</td></tr> <tr><td>&yellow 49.00</td></tr> <tr><td>&yellow 49.00</td></tr> <tr><td>&yellow 49.50</td></tr> <tr><td>&yellow 45.50</td></tr> <tr><td>&yellow 46.50</td></tr> <tr><td>&yellow 46.50</td></tr> </table>

Operating temperature: 0° to 45°C (32° to 113°F)

Ken Connell Intermediate Network Engineer Computer & Communication Services Ryerson University 350 Victoria St RM AB50 Toronto, Ont M5B 2K3 416-979-5000 x6709

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