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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hi all,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Having got the alerts working, I have been looking at the mail formats available. Since I will be configuring my alerts to use email I have not examined the script or SMS versions yet.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">The default TEXT format sends an email with all the info I need in it, but the errors at the top look like this:</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">red Tue Jul 1 03:32:23 BST 2008 - Processes NOT ok</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">&green /opt/InfoVista/Agent/jre/bin/java (found 1, req. between 1 and 1) &green /opt/InfoVista/Agent/bin/wrapper (found 1, req. between 1 and 1) &green /opt/InfoVista/VistaMart/bin/vmnotifier.sh (found 1, req. between 1 and 1) &red tnslsnr (found 2, req. between 1 and 1) &green oracleIVDB (found 25, req. between 1 and 99) &green ora_lgwr_IVDB (found 1, req. between 1 and 99)</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I get an alert on the first line and all the monitored processes on the second, so I have to pick and choose to find the one that's a problem (tnslsnr in this case). Being lazy<bs><bs><bs><bs> someone who wants to use technology to help them I would like any/all of the following:</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">1. Have the HTML page emailed to me in MIME format, so I can view it even if I don't have a permanent internet connection (format=HTML?)</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">2. Have the alert highlighted in the colour for their status, so at least I can see the error line quickly (format=MIME?)</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">3. Have the alerts displayed on per line, so at least I can more easily spot the alert text. Henrik, is this possible to do? Have you already done/planned this in the next version? I'm willing to have a poke at it myself but it may take some time.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I am currently thinking that maybe I will need to write a script that will parse the data and generate a MIME-format email along the lines of 2. above… unless someone has already done this?</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">What thoughts have you all?</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">|\/|artin</FONT>
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