[hobbit] Customizing the Alerts mails sent my hobbit

Henrik Stoerner henrik at hswn.dk
Tue Mar 25 13:43:16 CET 2008


On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 06:53:14AM -0400, Thangappandi, Arun (Ge Money, consultant) wrote:
> Can any body help me; how to customize the hobbit alert mails so that it
> shows the IP of the server which we monitor instead of showing the
> hostname in it.

Use a SCRIPT instead of MAIL command in hobbit-alerts.cfg, and create a 
script which composes your mail with the information you want and sends it off.

See the hobbit-alerts.cfg(5) man-page to get information about how you
extract the alert message, hostname, IP etc. to your script.


Regards,
Henrik




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