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html_mail.pl help

list David Baldwin
Fri, 27 May 2011 09:01:02 +1000
Message-Id: <user-676b5005ccda@xymon.invalid>

Kevin,
Thanks David,

 
I have it running now. I am finding that when using the email ack
function these messages are not getting parsed correctly. It is not
seeing the delay or and comment text.

 
I have never used or tested the email ack function, so not sure what it
is expecting.

http://www.xymon.com/xymon/help/manpages/man8/xymon-mailack.8.html
    ADDING INFORMATION TO THE REPLY MAIL

By default, an acknowledgment is valid for 1 hour. If you know in
advance that solving the problem is going to take longer, you can
change this by adding *delay=DURATION* to the subject of your mail
reply or on a line in the reply message. Duration is in minutes,
unless you add a trailing 'h' (for 'hours'), 'd' (for 'days') or 'w'
(for 'weeks').

You can also include a message that will show up on the status-page
together with the acknowledgment, e.g. to provide an explanation for
the issue or some other information to the users. You can either put
it at the end of the subject line as *msg=Some random text*, or you
can just enter it in the e-mail as the first non-blank line of text in
the mail (a "delay=N" line is ignored when looking for the message text).
May require some pre-processor to parse the ack message.
Here is what is being displayed on the nongreen page:

 
7 events acknowledged in the past 240 minutes

Thu May 26 14:19:10 2011

	
RcpkNj02Ss7R01A

	
if_stat

	
http://scbgilifss7cwsvr.wnsnet.attws.com/xymon/gifs/red.gif

	
"KING, KEVIN (ATTSI)" user-ca972c0c43a8@xymon.invalid

	
This is a multi-part message i

Thu May 26 14:19:02 2011

	
MplsMnGtSs7R01B

	
if_stat

	
http://scbgilifss7cwsvr.wnsnet.attws.com/xymon/gifs/red.gif

	
"KING, KEVIN (ATTSI)" user-ca972c0c43a8@xymon.invalid

	
This is a multi-part message i

Thu May 26 14:17:57 2011

	
ElssTxAeSS7R01A

	
if_load

	
http://scbgilifss7cwsvr.wnsnet.attws.com/xymon/gifs/red.gif

	
"KING, KEVIN (ATTSI)" user-ca972c0c43a8@xymon.invalid

	
This is a multi-part message i

Thu May 26 14:17:41 2011

	
ElssTxAeSS7R01A

	
if_load

	
http://scbgilifss7cwsvr.wnsnet.attws.com/xymon/gifs/red.gif

	
"KING, KEVIN (ATTSI)" user-ca972c0c43a8@xymon.invalid

	
This is a multi-part message i

Thu May 26 14:06:46 2011

	
BurlMaEhSS7R01B

	
if_dsc

	
http://scbgilifss7cwsvr.wnsnet.attws.com/xymon/gifs/red.gif

	
"KING, KEVIN (ATTSI)" user-ca972c0c43a8@xymon.invalid

	
This is a multi-part message i

Thu May 26 14:01:13 2011

	
AllnTxDwSS7R01B

	
if_load

	
http://scbgilifss7cwsvr.wnsnet.attws.com/xymon/gifs/red.gif

	
"KING, KEVIN (ATTSI)" user-ca972c0c43a8@xymon.invalid

	
This is a multi-part message i

Thu May 26 14:00:21 2011

	
CncnOhAmSs7R01B

	
if_stat

	
http://scbgilifss7cwsvr.wnsnet.attws.com/xymon/gifs/red.gif

	
"KING, KEVIN (ATTSI)" user-ca972c0c43a8@xymon.invalid

	
This is a multi-part message

 
Quite likely xymon-mailack doesn't handle MIME messages ("This is a
multi-part message" would indicate this), since there would be too many
options to have to cater for.

It is possibly a side effect in your MUA (Outlook?) of receiving an html
formatted alert e-mail that by default an HTML reply will be generated -
can you configure your mail client to do a plain text e-mail reply?
Thunderbird has this feature in the address book selectable per user.

Did it work before you tried html_mail.pl ?

I don't think it is a limitation of html_mail.pl as such, unless some
extra headers could assist in hinting to a MUA to reply in plaintext only.

David.
-----Original Message-----
From: David Baldwin [mailto:user-cbbf693f2c89@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 7:58 PM
To: KING, KEVIN (ATTSI)
Cc: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] html_mail.pl help
On 26/05/11 2:26 AM, KING, KEVIN (ATTSI) wrote:
David,
Where can I dl this? I goggled for it. But the hits I got were in the
message archives and those are blocked to be at work.
http://xymonton.org/doku.php/alerts
David.
-Kevin
-----Original Message-----
From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On
Behalf Of David Baldwin
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 9:51 PM
To: Joe Rindfleisch
Cc: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] html_mail.pl help
Joe,
I got your name from the html_mail.pl script.  I recently updated
to
xymon 4.3.2 and tried to go live in production.
On all alerts it seems to send out alerts to this one email
address.
it seems to send out to all that are intended to receive the emails
but the one email has only two hosts that it monitors and gets
alerts
from.  now it gets emails on the entire environment.
I can't follow what the problem is.
The script gets called from the alerts.cfg file via the SCRIPT
keyword.
The hosts it applies to will be determined by the alerts.cfg file
rules.
The recipient for e-mails is specified by the RCPT environment
variable
when the script is called.
Without the old and new config to compare, I can't help any further.
I see a lot of references to BB, has this script been updated?
The environment variable names have not changed that I know of, but
I
haven't used it with 4.3.x myself yet.
# Version       Author          Details
# -------       ------          -------
# 1.0           Martin Ward     Initial version. See code for
details.
# 1.1           David Baldwin   Clean up, remove hard-coded paths.
# 1.2           David Baldwin   format message as alternative parts
for plaintext and HTML views
thanks for your help
I've CCed to the xymon list which is a better place to get general
help.
David.
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user-cbbf693f2c89@xymon.invalid          Leverrier Street Bruce ACT
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David Baldwin - IT Unit
Australian Sports Commission          www.ausport.gov.au
Tel 02 62147830 Fax 02 62141830       PO Box 176 Belconnen ACT 2616
user-cbbf693f2c89@xymon.invalid          Leverrier Street Bruce ACT 2617