Thanks for both ideas. Will see which fits best!
Kenneth.
-----Original Message-----
From: Clark, Sean [mailto:user-2db5fbcae9a7@xymon.invalid]
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 user-f13d2cfb3a97@xymon.invalid
So your rules are
HOST=blabla
MAIL=user-d4bac53b98cf@xymon.invalid
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
user-d4bac53b98cf@xymon.invalid and getting the oncall person
-Sean
On 1/31/11 5:53 AM, "Henrik Størner" <user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid> wrote:
In <user-fb557fa7962b@xymon.invalid> Kenneth
Falor <user-b203be41ccd1@xymon.invalid> 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 user-5e58672ab5a6@xymon.invalid
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=user-5e58672ab5a6@xymon.invalid
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