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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">As Paul pointed out, use “xymond_alert” rather than “xymon_alert”. One of the most useful debug tools I’ve found for alerting is:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Add --cfid to the CMD in the [alerts] section of tasks.cfg<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">It means that when you *<b>do</b>* get your alerts working, you’ll get the line number of test line that fired in the subject of
the message; this allows you to identify exactly which rule triggered the message.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Good luck.
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">J</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> Tres Finocchiaro [mailto:tres.finocchiaro@gmail.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> 10 September 2014 16:22<br>
<b>To:</b> Ribeiro, Glauber<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Carl Inglis; xymon@xymon.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Xymon] leaking memory, alerts.cfg problems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">@Carl,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank, I believe that corrected the lingering telnet. It has not reappeared, thank you.<o:p></o:p></p>
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But I'm still not receiving alerts. We've intentionally left SSH disabled on this switch to trigger an alert, but emails don't seem to be going through.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">What is the command to trigger a test email from xymon? I found this in the archives:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">$ xymoncmd xymon_alert --test SWITCH1 ssh</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">But I get this:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">2014-09-10 11:14:01 Using default environment file /usr/lib/xymon/client/etc/xymonserver.cfg<br>
2014-09-10 11:14:01 execvp() failed: No such file or directory</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I assume xymon doesn't stop sending alerts after a timeout period, right? We chose to use the SSH service since it doesn't affect our environment. We can add a fake hostname/ip as well. I fear may have something misconfigured since alerts
won't go through at all.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">-Tres<o:p></o:p></p>
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