Sending Hobbit alerts to numeric pager
list Robert Manocchia
I need to alert via a numeric page when a red alert happens for certain services (conn, disk etc...). The page number has the following format: <areacode><number>@page.provider.com We successfully send pages out via sendmail regularly via a script on another server. How do I incorporate this method into Hobbit. Do I just use the MAIL keyword in hobbit-alerts.cfg or is there something else I need to do. I've checked out all the documentation but cannot get a clue what to do. Robert Manocchia UNIX System Administrator IDEXX Laboratories XXX XXX-XXXX EMail user-615a9b935f98@xymon.invalid
list S Aiello
I would suggest the following: MAIL <areacode><number>@page.provider.com FORMAT=SMS from the hobbit-alerts.cfg man page: FORMAT=formatstring Format of the text message with the alert. Default is "TEXT" (suitable for e-mail alerts). "PLAIN" is the same as text, but without the URL link to the status webpage. "SMS" is a short message with no subject for SMS alerts. "SCRIPT" is a brief message template for scripts. You can also tweak your existing script, for Hobbit to use, If you want to customize the message output. ~Steve
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On Friday 10 August 2007 08:32, Manocchia, Robert wrote:I need to alert via a numeric page when a red alert happens for certain services (conn, disk etc...). The page number has the following format: <areacode><number>@page.provider.com We successfully send pages out via sendmail regularly via a script on another server. How do I incorporate this method into Hobbit. Do I just use the MAIL keyword in hobbit-alerts.cfg or is there something else I need to do. I've checked out all the documentation but cannot get a clue what to do. Robert Manocchia UNIX System Administrator IDEXX Laboratories XXX XXX-XXXX EMail user-615a9b935f98@xymon.invalid
list Trent Melcher
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On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 08:32 -0400, Manocchia, Robert wrote:
I need to alert via a numeric page when a red alert happens for certain services (conn, disk etc…). The page number has the following format: <areacode><number>@page.provider.com
Yes, you would just use it as a typical email address, however I would also recommend setting up something like quickpage(qpage) to send pages out via and local TAP or 800 TAP depending on your pager provider. At least use this to send you pages if your mailserver goes down or have issue sending out emails, this way you still get your pages and know of problems. It does require a modem and phone line to be attahced to your hobbbit server. THis has saved us a few times when having network and and mail server issues. Thanks Trent
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We successfully send pages out via sendmail regularly via a script on another server. How do I incorporate this method into Hobbit. Do I just use the MAIL keyword in hobbit-alerts.cfg or is there something else I need to do. I’ve checked out all the documentation but cannot get a clue what to do. Robert Manocchia UNIX System Administrator IDEXX Laboratories XXX XXX-XXXX EMail user-615a9b935f98@xymon.invalid
list Robert Manocchia
Thanks I created a script to grab the info I wanted to send and it worked fine. I'm now just tweaking it to get meaningful info with the page. Thanks.
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Robert Manocchia
UNIX System Administrator
IDEXX Laboratories
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Subject: Re: [hobbit] Sending Hobbit alerts to numeric pager
I would suggest the following:
MAIL <areacode><number>@page.provider.com FORMAT=SMS
from the hobbit-alerts.cfg man page:
FORMAT=formatstring Format of the text message with the alert. Default
is "TEXT" (suitable for e-mail alerts). "PLAIN" is the same as text, but
without the URL link to the status webpage. "SMS" is a short message with no
subject for SMS alerts. "SCRIPT" is a brief message template for scripts.
You can also tweak your existing script, for Hobbit to use, If you want to
customize the message output.
~Steve
On Friday 10 August 2007 08:32, Manocchia, Robert wrote:I need to alert via a numeric page when a red alert happens for certain services (conn, disk etc...). The page number has the following format: <areacode><number>@page.provider.com We successfully send pages out via sendmail regularly via a script on another server. How do I incorporate this method into Hobbit. Do I just use the MAIL keyword in hobbit-alerts.cfg or is there something else I need to do. I've checked out all the documentation but cannot get a clue what to do. Robert Manocchia UNIX System Administrator IDEXX Laboratories XXX XXX-XXXX EMail user-615a9b935f98@xymon.invalid