[Xymon] Email alerting for content check

[Mike Burger]

On 2015-05-07 4:58 pm, Mike Burger wrote:
> Good afternoon, all.
> 
> I'm running Xymon 4.3.19 and I've implemented content checking for
> specific URLs in my setup, but the actual process to alert, on screen,
> when the content does not match does work.
> 
> The issue that I'm having is that Xymon isn't sending out the email
> alerts for that content check.
> 
> So, my hosts file entry looks like this:
> 
> page dorado Dorado
> xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx   hostname.company.com # NAME:"Dorado Price Engine 1"
> NOCOLUMNS:conn,disk,files,cpu,memory,msgs,ports,procs,inode
> cont=content;https://some.url.to.check/subdir;"Sorry,[[:space:]]I[[:space:]]don't[[:space:]]speak[[:space:]]via[[:space:]]HTTP[[:space:]]GET"
> yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy    hostname2.company.com # NAME:"Dorado Price Engine
> 2" NOCOLUMNS:conn,disk,files,cpu,memory,msgs,ports,procs,inode
> cont=content;https://another.url.to.check/subdir;"Sorry,[[:space:]]I[[:space:]]don't[[:space:]]speak[[:space:]]via[[:space:]]HTTP[[:space:]]GET"
> 
> This works...I get column "content" and it goes red if the site does
> not return the text "Sorry, I don't speak via HTTP GET".
> 
> My alerts.cfg looks like this:
> 
> PAGE=%(dorado)
>    MAIL list,of,recipients REPEAT=3 SERVICE=http,cont,content RECOVERED
> 
> The xymonnet section of my tasks.cfg looks like this:
> 
> [xymonnet]
>         ENVFILE /apps/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg
>         NEEDS xymond
>         CMD xymonnet --report --ping --checkresponse
> --content=content,ptcls1,ptcls2,ptcls3,ptcls4
>         LOGFILE $XYMONSERVERLOGS/xymonnet.log
>         INTERVAL 1m
> 
> I've also tried this in my tasks.cfg:
> 
> [xymonnet]
>         ENVFILE /apps/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg
>         NEEDS xymond
>         CMD xymonnet --report --ping --checkresponse --content=content
> --content=ptcls1 --content=ptcls2 --content=ptcls3 --content=ptcls4
>         LOGFILE $XYMONSERVERLOGS/xymonnet.log
>         INTERVAL 1m
> 
> I'm at a loss...how do I make Xymon send out alerts on the actual
> content checks...what the heck am I doing wrong?

I think I found my issue...I think I had "content" in a commented line 
in alerts.cfg but not in the uncommented line.
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