Trouble With Alert Format

Yes, I have had issues with line breaks and spaces when copy/pasting.? 
Also quotation marks sometimes get screwed up when copying from how-to's 
with certain fonts.? If things don't work when copy/pasting, always 
check line breaks, spaces, and quotation marks.

Kris Springer


On 5/5/22 08:40, Josh Luthman wrote:

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

        <http://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 <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 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 <http://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