custom email alert sample 🔗 link

Hi, I've been looking into customizing the email alerts that get sent from our xymon server.? I've played with the SMS option and like the minimal content of the body of the email, but I still want a customized Subject and I want the alert URL included in the email body.? I assume the SCRIPT option will accomplish this.? Does anyone have a simple script that they can share?
Thanks.

Kris Springer

Kris

On rare occasions, we enable an SMS alerting script, using the SMS format.
We added to alerts.cfg:

$SendSms=/usr/local/sbin/xymon-sendsms.sh
$Mobile1=0123456789
$Mobile1=0123456798

Then:

HOST=%^hostname00[0-3].example.com SERVICE=conn
    SCRIPT $SendSMS $Mobile1 FORMAT=SMS COLOR=red REPEAT=60 DURATION>10
RECOVERED
    SCRIPT $SendSMS $Mobile2 FORMAT=SMS COLOR=red REPEAT=60 DURATION>10
RECOVERED

The script:

#!/bin/sh

# This script is called by the xymon alerts sub-system (see
/etc/xymon/alerts.cfg)
# and simply sends an email to an Email -> SMS gateway.
# The email is sent using the smtp-source program due to mail being
disabled on the
# Xymon server for security and reliability reasons.
# This script expects the following environmental variables to be set when
called:
# BBALPHAMSG   - The full text of the status log triggering the alert
# RCPT         - The recipient mobile number.

LogFile="/var/log/xymon/xymon-sendsms.log"

Sender="xymon@`/bin/hostname -f`"
Recipient="$user-5f4667dbacee@xymon.invalid"
Server="smtp.example.org"
Subject="Xymon Alert"

Date="`/bin/date`"
Smtp="/usr/sbin/smtp-source"

{
        echo "Subject: $Subject"
        echo "Date: $Date"
        echo "To: $Recipient"
        echo ""
        echo "$BBALPHAMSG"
} | $Smtp -M `hostname -f` -f "$Sender" -t "$Recipient" -F /dev/stdin
$Server

echo "$Date" >> $LogFile
echo "$Recipient" >> $LogFile
echo "$BBALPHAMSG" >> $LogFile
echo "" >> $LogFile


On Tue, 19 May 2020 at 07:06, Kris Springer <user-c2caa0a7a8d5@xymon.invalid>

wrote:

To close the loop on this topic, here's the final solution I came up with. This includes instructions.
https://krisspringer.com/posts/xymon-email-alerts.php

Thank You,
Systems Admin
I/O Network Administration
https://www.ionetworkadmin.com
  
On 7/5/20 7:52 PM, Jeremy Laidman wrote:

Kris

On rare occasions, we enable an SMS alerting script,?using the SMS format. We added to alerts.cfg:

$SendSms=/usr/local/sbin/xymon-sendsms.sh
$Mobile1=0123456789
$Mobile1=0123456798

Then:

HOST=%^hostname00[0-3].example.com <http://example.com>; SERVICE=conn

Recipient="$user-5f4667dbacee@xymon.invalid <mailto:user-5f4667dbacee@xymon.invalid>"
Server="smtp.example.org <http://smtp.example.org>";