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Having some issues getting email alerts to come

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list Don Kuhlman · Fri, 1 Jun 2012 17:25:24 +0000 · 
Hi folks. It's been quiet on the list so I thought I would start a new thread ;)  I've been googling this and trying to get it to work from the man pages the last few days.

I started to try and clean up alerting and emails in our environment from xymon.

I just want to get email alerts for CPU, Mem, and Disk from any host we have and send it to a single email group, but am not getting any emails even though the hosts are showing red alerts on the xymon web pages.

Here is what I put in analysis.cfg

host=* TIME:W:0800:1600

#Setting for this rule is the value to watch LOAD PROC CPU DISK etc
        DISK * 90 95 GROUP=SRMINFRA
        LOAD 8.0 12.0 GROUP=SRMINFRA
        PROC cron GROUP=SRMINFRA


DEFAULT
        # These are the built-in defaults.
        UP 1h
        LOAD    5.0 10.0 GROUP=SRMINFRA
        DISK    * 90 95 GROUP=SRMINFRA
        MEMPHYS 100 101
        MEMSWAP 50 80
        MEMACT  90 97

Here is what I put in alerts.cfg
#Macro definition
$SRMINFRA=SCRIPT /home/xymon/server/ext/html_mail.pl user-59b3568abfc7@xymon.invalid FORMAT=TEXT

#Rule and Recipient for all host cpu disk mem proc alerts
SERVICE=cpu,disk,mem,proc TIME=W:0800:1600 RECOVERED
$SRMINFRA


Any guidance appreciated.

Thanks

Don K
list Larry Barber · Fri, 1 Jun 2012 12:51:32 -0500 · 
You need to specify a 'GROUP' in your alerts.cfg stanza:

#Rule and Recipient for all host cpu disk mem proc alerts
GROUP=SRMINFRA
SERVICE=cpu,disk,mem,proc TIME=W:0800:1600 RECOVERED
$SRMINFRA

I'm also not too sure that giving the macro and the group the same name is
such a good idea.

Thanks,
Larry Barber
▸ quoted from Don Kuhlman

On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Don Kuhlman <user-5eb2bfadc6c6@xymon.invalid> wrote:

 Hi folks. It's been quiet on the list so I thought I would start a new
thread ;)  I've been googling this and trying to get it to work from the
man pages the last few days.

 I started to try and clean up alerting and emails in our environment
from xymon.

 I just want to get email alerts for CPU, Mem, and Disk from any host we
have and send it to a single email group, but am not getting any emails
even though the hosts are showing red alerts on the xymon web pages.

 Here is what I put in analysis.cfg

 host=* TIME:W:0800:1600

 #Setting for this rule is the value to watch LOAD PROC CPU DISK etc
        DISK * 90 95 GROUP=SRMINFRA
        LOAD 8.0 12.0 GROUP=SRMINFRA
        PROC cron GROUP=SRMINFRA


 DEFAULT
        # These are the built-in defaults.
        UP 1h
        LOAD    5.0 10.0 GROUP=SRMINFRA
        DISK    * 90 95 GROUP=SRMINFRA
        MEMPHYS 100 101
        MEMSWAP 50 80
        MEMACT  90 97

 Here is what I put in alerts.cfg
#Macro definition
 $SRMINFRA=SCRIPT /home/xymon/server/ext/html_mail.pl
user-59b3568abfc7@xymon.invalid FORMAT=TEXT

 #Rule and Recipient for all host cpu disk mem proc alerts
SERVICE=cpu,disk,mem,proc TIME=W:0800:1600 RECOVERED
$SRMINFRA


 Any guidance appreciated.

 Thanks

 Don K
list Don Kuhlman · Mon, 4 Jun 2012 16:59:27 +0000 · 
HI Larry. Thanks for the tips.  I've modified it and actually found an error on the email address in the alerts.cfg file.

In the macro definition, there was a double @domain.com – eg where it said html_mail.pl user-59b3568abfc7@xymon.invalid<mailto:user-59b3568abfc7@xymon.invalid>@domain.com

That must have got stuck on there when I was editing the file with nano and doing some cut/paste operations.

In any case, I'm getting all kinds of email now.

Regards,

Don K
▸ quoted from Larry Barber


From: Larry Barber <user-6ef9c2864140@xymon.invalid<mailto:user-6ef9c2864140@xymon.invalid>>
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 12:51:32 -0500
To: Don Kuhlman <user-5eb2bfadc6c6@xymon.invalid<mailto:user-5eb2bfadc6c6@xymon.invalid>>
Cc: Xymon Email List <xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com>>
Subject: Re: [Xymon] Having some issues getting email alerts to come

You need to specify a 'GROUP' in your alerts.cfg stanza:

#Rule and Recipient for all host cpu disk mem proc alerts
GROUP=SRMINFRA
SERVICE=cpu,disk,mem,proc TIME=W:0800:1600 RECOVERED
$SRMINFRA

I'm also not too sure that giving the macro and the group the same name is such a good idea.

Thanks,
Larry Barber

On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Don Kuhlman <user-5eb2bfadc6c6@xymon.invalid<mailto:user-5eb2bfadc6c6@xymon.invalid>> wrote:
Hi folks. It's been quiet on the list so I thought I would start a new thread ;)  I've been googling this and trying to get it to work from the man pages the last few days.

I started to try and clean up alerting and emails in our environment from xymon.

I just want to get email alerts for CPU, Mem, and Disk from any host we have and send it to a single email group, but am not getting any emails even though the hosts are showing red alerts on the xymon web pages.

Here is what I put in analysis.cfg

host=* TIME:W:0800:1600

#Setting for this rule is the value to watch LOAD PROC CPU DISK etc
        DISK * 90 95 GROUP=SRMINFRA
        LOAD 8.0 12.0 GROUP=SRMINFRA
        PROC cron GROUP=SRMINFRA


DEFAULT
        # These are the built-in defaults.
        UP 1h
        LOAD    5.0 10.0 GROUP=SRMINFRA
        DISK    * 90 95 GROUP=SRMINFRA
        MEMPHYS 100 101
        MEMSWAP 50 80
        MEMACT  90 97

Here is what I put in alerts.cfg
#Macro definition

$SRMINFRA=SCRIPT /home/xymon/server/ext/html_mail.pl<http://html_mail.pl>; user-59b3568abfc7@xymon.invalid<mailto:user-59b3568abfc7@xymon.invalid> FORMAT=TEXT
▸ quoted from Larry Barber

#Rule and Recipient for all host cpu disk mem proc alerts
SERVICE=cpu,disk,mem,proc TIME=W:0800:1600 RECOVERED
$SRMINFRA


Any guidance appreciated.

Thanks

Don K