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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Maybe you are sending a recovered notice on Yellow instead of green?<BR>
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On 12/22/10 9:24 AM, "Nordquist, Daniel" <<a href="Daniel.Nordquist@orlandohealth.com">Daniel.Nordquist@orlandohealth.com</a>> wrote:<BR>
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#!/bin/bash<BR>
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case $BBCOLORLEVEL in<BR>
<B> green)<BR>
STATUS="RECOVERED"<BR>
;;<BR>
</B> red)<BR>
STATUS="CRITICAL"<BR>
;;<BR>
yellow)<BR>
STATUS="WARNING"<BR>
;;<BR>
purple)<BR>
STATUS="stopped reporting"<BR>
;;<BR>
*)<BR>
STATUS="unknown status"<BR>
;;<BR>
esac<BR>
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MESSAGE="To: $RCPT<BR>
Subject: $BBHOSTNAME $STATUS<BR>
Content-Type: text/plain<BR>
X-Priority: 1 (Highest)<BR>
X-MSMail-Priority: High<BR>
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$BBALPHAMSG"<BR>
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echo "$MESSAGE" | sendmail -t<BR>
exit 0<BR>
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</SPAN><FONT SIZE="2"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10pt'><B>From:</B> Ralph Mitchell [<a href="mailto:ralphmitchell@gmail.com">mailto:ralphmitchell@gmail.com</a>] <BR>
<B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, December 21, 2010 3:49 PM<BR>
<B>To:</B> <a href="xymon@xymon.com">xymon@xymon.com</a><BR>
<B>Subject:</B> Re: [xymon] Is setting high importance on alert emails possible?<BR>
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I haven't tested it, but something like this ought to do it:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>#!/bin/bash<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'><BR>
</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'> <BR>
</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'><BR>
</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>case $BBCOLORLEVEL in<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'><BR>
</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'> red)<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'><BR>
</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'> STATUS="CRITICAL"<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'><BR>
</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'> ;;<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'><BR>
</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'> yellow)<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'><BR>
</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'> STATUS="WARNING"<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'><BR>
</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'> ;;<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'><BR>
</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'> purple)<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'><BR>
</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'> STATUS="stopped reporting"<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'><BR>
</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'> ;;<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'><BR>
</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'> *)<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'><BR>
</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'> STATUS="unknown status"<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'><BR>
</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'> ;;<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'><BR>
</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>esac<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'><BR>
</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'> <BR>
</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'><BR>
</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>MESSAGE="To: $RCPT<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'><BR>
</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>Subject: $BBHOSTNAME $STATUS<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'><BR>
</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>Content-Type: text/plain<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'><BR>
</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>X-Priority: 1 (Highest)<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'><BR>
</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>X-MSMail-Priority: High<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'><BR>
</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'> <BR>
</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'><BR>
</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>$BBALPHAMSG"<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'><BR>
</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'> <BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>echo "$MESSAGE" | sendmail -t<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'><BR>
</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>exit 0<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>Ralph Mitchell<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Nordquist, Daniel <<a href="Daniel.Nordquist@orlandohealth.com">Daniel.Nordquist@orlandohealth.com</a>> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'><FONT COLOR="#1F497D"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Thank you!<BR>
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I’m a noob at this so I’m not familiar with how to format a script. Can you point me to a good page where I can see some examples?<BR>
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</FONT></SPAN><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10pt'><B>From:</B> Ralph Mitchell [<a href="mailto:ralphmitchell@gmail.com">mailto:ralphmitchell@gmail.com</a>] <BR>
<B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, December 21, 2010 11:46 AM<BR>
<B>To:</B> <a href="xymon@xymon.com">xymon@xymon.com</a><BR>
<B>Subject:</B> Re: [xymon] Is setting high importance on alert emails possible?<BR>
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There's an email header that needs to be inserted. Here's an example:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'> <a href="http://techonthenet.com/unix/high_priority.php">http://techonthenet.com/unix/high_priority.php</a><BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>You'll need to change your alert config to use SCRIPT instead of MAIL, then write a script to pick up the relevant info from the environment variables listed in the xymon-alerts help page. You don't need to write everything to a file, just use a big echo statement and pipe it through sendmail. The blank line between the headers and the message body is important... <BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12pt'>On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Josh Luthman <<a href="josh@imaginenetworksllc.com">josh@imaginenetworksllc.com</a>> wrote:<BR>
I think if it's available with the command Henrik made it would have<BR>
been documented. If not documented, I'd count on it not existing.<BR>
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What you'll probably need to do is call upon your own script to send<BR>
the email and you can change that with whatever mail command you use.<BR>
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Josh Luthman<BR>
Office: 937-552-2340<BR>
Direct: 937-552-2343<BR>
1100 Wayne St<BR>
Suite 1337<BR>
Troy, OH 45373<BR>
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On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Nordquist, Daniel<BR>
<<a href="Daniel.Nordquist@orlandohealth.com">Daniel.Nordquist@orlandohealth.com</a>> wrote:<BR>
> Hey all, I doubt I can do this but maybe someone knows a trick…<BR>
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> I’d like to be able to send email alerts with a high importance flag based<BR>
> on the alert color and/or specific server or service that is down.<BR>
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> Is there any way to do this? I’ve scoured the man pages but can’t find<BR>
> anything.<BR>
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> Thanks,<BR>
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> Dan<BR>
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