Howto get Hobbit to send email 🔗 link

Hey,
 
I have being using Hobbit for a while.
 
But now I want it to be able to send email notifications, but I can't
get it to work.
 
I have installet postfix on my server (Ubuntu) and set it up to relay to
our main mailserver. I kan send mail from it with mutt.
 
I have tryed to set at alert up in hobbit-alerts.cfg. And I can see that
it is "sending a email.." in the /var/log/hobbit/notifications.log. But
I can also se in /var/log/syslog that it is not sending anything to my
main email server. As it do if I send with Mutt.
 
Please help me...
 
Best regards,
 
Kim Johansen
Beredskabsstyrelsen

What is the message in syslog?  Does postfix maintain a separate log file as well?  If so, what is in it?

Kim Langtved Johansen wrote:

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Rich Smrcina
VM Assist, Inc.
Phone: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Ans Service:  XXX-XXX-XXXX
user-61add9955ef9@xymon.invalid

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Hey,

My Postfix don't have it's own logfile, it's logging into my Syslog.
This text comes into my Syslog, when I send an e-mail with Mutt:

Jun  4 14:05:12 localhost postfix/pickup[4983]: F40F19B6DC: uid=0
from=<root>
Jun  4 14:05:12 localhost postfix/cleanup[6502]: F40F19B6DC:
message-id=<20070604120511.GA6475 at localhost>
Jun  4 14:05:12 localhost postfix/qmgr[4984]: F40F19B6DC:
from=<root at localhost>, size=397, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Jun  4 14:05:12 localhost postfix/smtp[6504]: F40F19B6DC:
to=<user-e0692d31006f@xymon.invalid>, relay=MainEmailserver[MainEmailServerIP]:25,
delay=0.18, delays=0.09/0.02/0.02/0.06, $
Jun  4 14:05:12 localhost postfix/qmgr[4984]: F40F19B6DC: removed 


And then I have an alarm in Hobbit, this Appear in the notifications.log
for hobbit:

Mon Jun  4 15:02:53 2007 Server.disk (IP) user-e0692d31006f@xymon.invalid[121] 1180962173 100
Mon Jun  4 15:02:53 2007 Server.disk (IP) REPEAR=1m[121] 1180962173 100

But nothing appear in the Syslog from Postfix.

Kim.

-----Oprindelig meddelelse-----
Fra: Rich Smrcina [mailto:user-cf452ff334e0@xymon.invalid] 
Sendt: 4. juni 2007 15:04
Til: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Emne: Re: [hobbit] Howto get Hobbit to send email

What is the message in syslog?  Does postfix maintain a separate log
file as well?  If so, what is in it?

Kim Langtved Johansen wrote:

--
Rich Smrcina
VM Assist, Inc.
Phone: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Ans Service:  XXX-XXX-XXXX
user-61add9955ef9@xymon.invalid

Catch the WAVV!  http://www.wavv.org
WAVV 2008 - Chattanooga - April 18-22, 2008

I use this script:

#!/bin/sh
#
# Author:       Gary Baluha
# Created On:   3-16-2006
# Description:  Adds a searchable subject string to SMS-formatted messages
#               to allow client-side filtering of possible duplicate alerts.
# NOTES:        BBHOSTSVC = The host affected, and the name of the alert
#               BBALPHAMSG = The full alert message (same as
#                               BBHOSTSVC [ACKCODE] if FORMAT=SMS)
#               ACKCODE = The ack code for the alert
#               BBCOLORLEVEL = The color of the alert (red, yellow, etc)
#
# REVISION HISTORY:
# =================
# Ver.  Date            Author  Notes
# ----  ----            ------  -----
# v1.0  3-16-2006       GMB     Initial creation
# v2.0  2-13-2007       GMB     Page alert now shows what is red/yellow, in
#                               addition to the name of the alert

# VARIABLES:
msg=`echo "${BBALPHAMSG}" | egrep "&yellow|&red"`
msg="\n${msg}"

# CODE:
#=======
subject="!HB ${ACKCODE}"
alert="${BBHOSTSVC} ${BBCOLORLEVEL}"
message="\n${alert}${msg}"

echo -e "${message}" | mail -s "${subject}" $RCPT


Frank M. Ramaekers Jr.
American Income Life Insurance Co.
Phone: (XXX)XXX-XXXX
XXXX Wooded Acres Dr.
Fax: (XXX)XXX-XXXX
Waco, Texas  76701

-----Original Message-----
From: Kim Langtved Johansen [mailto:user-47b2b2e5731e@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 7:53 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: [hobbit] Howto get Hobbit to send email

Hey,
 
I have being using Hobbit for a while.
 
But now I want it to be able to send email notifications, but I can't get it to work.
 
I have installet postfix on my server (Ubuntu) and set it up to relay to our main mailserver. I kan send mail from it with mutt.
 
I have tryed to set at alert up in hobbit-alerts.cfg. And I can see that it is "sending a email.." in the /var/log/hobbit/notifications.log. But I can also se in /var/log/syslog that it is not sending anything to my main email server. As it do if I send with Mutt.
 
Please help me...
 
Best regards,
 
Kim Johansen
Beredskabsstyrelsen

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On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 05:39:43PM +0200, Kim Langtved Johansen wrote:

It tries to send an e-mail to "user-e0692d31006f@xymon.invalid". And you have a typo on line
121 of your hobbit-alerts.cfg - it should probably be "REPEAT=1m"
instead of "REPEAR=1m" (T instead of R).

Do us a favour and run
   bbcmd hobbitd_alert --test Server disk
and look for the line that says
   Mail alert with command 'mail -s "Hobbit [12345] Server:disk CRITICAL (RED)" user-e0692d31006f@xymon.invalid'

That's the exact command Hobbit uses to send the alert. Check that it
works; some systems need to have MAILCMD set to "mailx" instead of
"mail" (the default) in hobbitserver.cfg.


Regards,
Henrik