[Xymon] e-mail alerts for a specific log? (Solaris 10)

Nick Pettefar Nick at Pettefar.com
Mon May 28 11:56:56 CEST 2012


Hi, thanks for that.

Which logs or other files could I view to debug this please?

Regards,

Nick Pettefar


On 25 May 2012 15:33, Neil Simmonds <Neil.Simmonds at express-gifts.co.uk> wrote:
> Nick,
>
> Digging into it a bit further, you could use the GROUP=groupname
> parameter in analysis.cfg.
>
> i.e.
> LOG %application "%Restore failed for Server*" COLOR=red
> GROUP=serveradmins
>
> If you set a groupname on each LOG alert in analysis.cfg then you can
> use that in alerts.cfg to direct the alert.
>
> So alerts.cfg could be something like this,
>
> GROUP=serveradmins SERVICE=msgs
> MAIL whoever at wherever.com
>
> Or
>
> HOST=servername GROUP=appladmins SERVICE=msgs
> MAIL whoeverelse at wherever.com
>
> That way alerts would only be sent to the relevant group.
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: pettefar at gmail.com [mailto:pettefar at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Nick
> Pettefar
>> Sent: 25 May 2012 15:17
>> To: Neil Simmonds; xymon
>> Subject: Re: [Xymon] e-mail alerts for a specific log? (Solaris 10)
>>
>> Hi Neil,
>>
>> Yes, I definitely need these application logs going to the application
>> team and not the server team. I am very surprised that this is not
>> able to be done as I am sure it is a common scenario?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Nick Pettefar
>>
>>
>> On 25 May 2012 14:40, Neil Simmonds
> <Neil.Simmonds at express-gifts.co.uk>
>> wrote:
>> > Nick,
>> >
>> > I don't think you can directly direct different log alerts on the
> same
>> > server to different recipients but this is something I'm looking at
> and
>> > I've decided that the alert should run a script that will decide
> which
>> > alert it is and send to the appropriate recipients.
>> >
>> > Obviously if all the log alerts from any one particular server want
> to
>> > go to the same group of people then the standard Xymon functionality
>> > will do that.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Neil.
>> >
>> >
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On
>> >> Behalf Of Nick Pettefar
>> >> Sent: 25 May 2012 12:48
>> >> To: xymon at xymon.com
>> >> Subject: [Xymon] e-mail alerts for a specific log? (Solaris 10)
>> >>
>> >> Can anyone tell me how I can set up xymon so that specific
>> >> (application) logs on specific servers send e-mail alerts (to
> several
>> >> recipients)? I tried searching through the archives but could not
>> >> find anything showing this. Do I have to configure (somehow) a
>> >> different service? The servers run Solaris 10. I'm new to xymon.
>> >>
>> >> Nick
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