Trouble With Alert Format

Fantastic guide, thank you!

Just a little gotcha: when copy/paste the guide is offering line breaks
which causes issues.  The cat's text:alert line pastes with a line break
and that makes the post look like code instead of a pretty link/a href.
Your shell script should NOT have a line break after the pipe.

On Thu, May 5, 2022 at 9:36 AM Kris Springer <user-c2caa0a7a8d5@xymon.invalid>
wrote:

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 <user-c2caa0a7a8d5@xymon.invalid>
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&amp;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 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
         MAIL user-28ac44e05df5@xymon.invalid 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 COLOR=red MAIL user-28ac44e05df5@xymon.invalid
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