customize the email body alerts for xymon

I no longer do much work for that client, and haven't been on site for over
a year, and have no idea when I will be there again.
However, from memory, it was really simple.
In hobbit-alerts.cfg (looks like it's been renamed to alerts.cfg in the new
version) you do something like this
HOST=foo SERVICE=stuff COLOR=red
     SCRIPT=/my/script/location/mail_helpdesk.ksh

Check here for an example (commented out)
http://www.xymon.com/xymon-cgi/viewconf.sh?alert

Then your script, /my/script/location/mail_helpdesk.ksh
will look something like this
#!/usr/bin/ksh
echo "
Hi Helpdesk

Please log a high call and assign it to the DBA team.
Their disks are on fire, and need to be doused with fine lager,
which they must deliver to the sysadmin team before COB.

Thanks
     Sysadmin Team " | mailx user-8a88f233d714@xymon.invalid

Make it executable, and it should be a go.

You can also customise it a little.
For one, you can add command line variables, which you can define in the
alerts file, and also, there are a lot of variable automagically defined for
you by Xymon.
(Check the alerts man page for more)

Try something like this.
HOST=foo SERVICE=stuff COLOR=red
     SCRIPT=/my/script/location/mail_generic.ksh user-8a88f233d714@xymon.invalid DBA


#!/usr/bin/ksh
RECIPIENT=$1
LOGGROUP=$2
CALL_LEVEL=medium
[ "$BBCOLORLEVEL" = "RED" ] && CALL_LEVEL=high

echo "
Hi $RECIPIENT

Please log a $CALL_LEVEL call to $LOGGROUP, with the subject
\"$BBHOSTNAME - $BBSVCNAME problem - Please Investigate.\"
Please include this link in the service call ticket for more information
$(echo $BBALPHAMSG | grep http)

Thanks
    Monitoring.
" | mailx $RECIPIENT


On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 6:47 AM, FORD Alan <user-eb925835b8b9@xymon.invalid> wrote:

 I have written an email script which displays as html (of course you have
to have a html enabled  email client).

It checks for individual services and displays a fixed message, could also
add checks for specific hosts to.


Here is a sample (not sure if html will display properly thru here)
Xymon Alert (red) : files utnfrc01.stanwell.com


Files on server *testserver.stanwell.com* have not been updated recently

testserver.stanwell.com:files red [124238]
red Files status at Tue May 17 04:05:58 EST 2011

[image: red]
/stanwell/data/mms/loader/Reports/STANWELL_P5MIN_201105170410_20110517040540.zip<http://xymon-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?CLIENT=utnfrc01.stanwell.com&SECTION=file:/stanwell/data/mms/loader/Reports/STANWELL_P5MIN_201105170410_20110517040540.zip>;
File is missing
File is missing


[image: yellow]/stanwell/data/scada/sps/incoming/unit2/MTBIN.DAT<http://xymon-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?CLIENT=utnfrc01.stanwell.com&SECTION=file:/stanwell/data/scada/sps/incoming/unit2/MTBIN.DAT>;
File is missing


[image: green]/stanwell/data/mms/batcher/Holding<http://xymon-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?CLIENT=utnfrc01.stanwell.com&SECTION=file:/stanwell/data/mms/batcher/Holding>;


*From:* xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] *On
Behalf Of *Vernon Everett
*Sent:* Monday, 16 May 2011 9:21 PM
*To:* sonal kumar
*Cc:* Xymon mailinglist
*Subject:* Re: [Xymon] customize the email body alerts for xymon


Use the script option in the alerts file.
At a previous client, we had a very specific problem we were monitoring
for.
Instead of Xymon sending a standard alert email, I needed a set of detailed
instructions sent out, indicating how to resolve the issue.
I then created a script to send the custom email, instead.
It worked so well, the client asked me to use the technique for a number of
other problem areas.
Most popular use was to send instructions to helpdesk, explaining who to
log the call to, and the severity level.

Regards
     Vernon


 On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 6:10 PM, sonal kumar <user-40212399ff4e@xymon.invalid> wrote:

Hi team,


Please suggest if there is any possibility to modify the body of the email
alert as below as my client needs such format.


On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 7:42 PM, sonal kumar <user-40212399ff4e@xymon.invalid> wrote:

Hi Gatis,


Thanks for providing the scipt ,after applying it ,we are getting blank
mails as below


  sapsrp disk - red 718518

XYMON

X

*Error! Filename not specified.*Reply

*Error! Filename not specified.*

*Error! Filename not specified.*

from

*Error! Filename not specified.**user-1bc03939b7bc@xymon.invalid*

to

*Error! Filename not specified.*user-40212399ff4e@xymon.invalid

date

*Error! Filename not specified.*Fri, May 13, 2011 at 6:47 PM

subject

*Error! Filename not specified.*sapsrp disk - red 718518


So just one more favour,as i am not good at scripting.

We need the mail to be some thing line below. with the body displaying
alert and and TEXT having some presentable format with possible action
items.


   sapsrp disk </filesystem name> - red 718518

XYMON

X

*Error! Filename not specified.*Reply

*Error! Filename not specified.*

*Error! Filename not specified.*

from

*Error! Filename not specified.**user-1bc03939b7bc@xymon.invalid*

to

*Error! Filename not specified.*user-40212399ff4e@xymon.invalid

date

*Error! Filename not specified.*Fri, May 13, 2011 at 6:47 PM

subject

*Error! Filename not specified.*sapsrp disk - red 718518


Hi team,


Please look at the below alert for system <hostname> and take the action.


red Thu May 12 15:59:21 WST 2011 - Filesystems NOT ok
&red /var (98% used) has reached the PANIC level (90%)


Action: Remove the irrelevant files from </filesystem>


On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 2:06 AM, Gatis A. <user-e47f4dceddb4@xymon.invalid> wrote:

Hi,

Quick and dirty solution to get &red lines to be sent out only (tested with
xymon 4.2.2)
Basicly $BBALPHAMSG variable is the key here!


hobbit-alerts.cfg:
#-----------------------------------------------------
GROUP=TESTGROUP
        SCRIPT /path/to/custom_alerts.sh user-3a7b9bbe2bfd@xymon.invalid
#-----------------------------------------------------


custom_alerts.sh:
#-----------------------------------------------------
#!/bin/bash

BBALPHAMSG=`echo "$BBALPHAMSG" | /path/to/custom_grep.pl`;export
BBALPHAMSG

if [ $RECOVERED -eq 1 ]
        then
        RECOVERED="recovered"
        else
        RECOVERED=""
fi

echo "${BBALPHAMSG:0:300}" | mail -s "$BBHOSTNAME $BBSVCNAME -
$BBCOLORLEVEL $ACKCODE $RECOVERED $DOWNSECSMSG" $RCPT
exit 0
#-----------------------------------------------------


custom_grep.pl:
#-----------------------------------------------------
#!/usr/bin/perl

# searching for lines which has "&red"

while (<>) {

@maches=/&red .*\s/ig;

foreach $_ (@maches) {
        s/<.*?>//ig; # removing all the html tags
        print "$_ ";
        }

}
#-----------------------------------------------------


  On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 3:31 PM, sonal kumar <user-40212399ff4e@xymon.invalid> wrote:

 Hi team,


I need to customize the email body and pattern for the alerts receiving
from xymon.

As in the below alert mail for disk ,

   - we need the mail to display only the filesystem which is critical in
   individual mails and avoid displaying the the entire list of filesystems.
   - We need to customise the body of the mail and add some meaningful
   text unique for each alert,let me know if any sample script can be used for
   it.
   - in below mail /oracle/SRP/sapdata0 alert is shown in KB UNITS, can
   this be changed to show MB units free

Please suggest.thanks in advance


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: <user-1bc03939b7bc@xymon.invalid>
Date: Thu, May 12, 2011 at 5:31 PM
Subject: Xymon [313335] sapsrp:disk CRITICAL (RED)
To: user-40212399ff4e@xymon.invalid


red Thu May 12 15:59:21 WST 2011 - Filesystems NOT ok
&red /var (98% used) has reached the PANIC level (90%)
&yellow /tempsp (96% used) has reached the WARNING level (95%)
&yellow /usr/sap (81% used) has reached the WARNING level (70%)
&yellow /oracle/SRP/saparch (77% used) has reached the WARNING level (75%)
&yellow /oracle/SRP/sapdata0 (3013196 units free) has reached the WARNING
level (3013199 units)

Filesystem    1024-blocks      Used      Free %Used Mounted on
/dev/hd4          1048576    473192    575384   46% /
/dev/hd2         10485760   4792084   5693676   46% /usr
/dev/hd9var        524288    513520     10768   98% /var
/dev/hd3          1572864    950588    622276   61% /tmp
/dev/hd1           262144       968    261176    1% /home
/proc                   -         -         -    -  /proc
/dev/hd10opt      1179648    478100    701548   41% /opt
/dev/lvsrporacle      212992    103972    109020   49% /oracle
/dev/lvsrp_client      409600    264280    145320   65% /oracle/client
/dev/lvsrp_srp     1359872    262204   1097668   20% /oracle/SRP
/dev/fslv01       5242880   5006128    236752   96% /tempsp
/dev/lvsrpmira      720896    410056    310840   57% /oracle/SRP/mirrlogA
/dev/lvsrpmirb      720896    410056    310840   57% /oracle/SRP/mirrlogB
/dev/lvsrporia      720896    426576    294320   60% /oracle/SRP/origlogA
/dev/lvsrporib      720896    410056    310840   57% /oracle/SRP/origlogB
/dev/lvsrp_sapreorg      565248     33572    531676    6%
/oracle/SRP/sapreorg
/dev/lvsrp_sapmnt     4194304   2273984   1920320   55% /sapmnt/SRP
/dev/lvsrp_usr_sap     7856128   6303556   1552572   81% /usr/sap
/dev/lvsrp_102     8183808   5288020   2895788   65% /oracle/SRP/102_64
/dev/lvsrparch    10240000   7882476   2357524   77% /oracle/SRP/saparch
/dev/lvsrpdata0   185073664 182060468   3013196   99% /oracle/SRP/sapdata0

See http://sapsrp/xymon-cgi/svcstatus.sh?HOST=sapsrp&SERVICE=disk


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Thanks & Regards
Sonal kumar N C


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