[xymon] Is setting high importance on alert emails possible?

[Josh Luthman]

Thanks for sharing and testing!
On Dec 22, 2010 9:21 AM, "Nordquist, Daniel" <
Daniel.Nordquist at orlandohealth.com> wrote:
> Works great! Thanks a lot for putting up with my ignorance... =-)
>
>
> From: Ralph Mitchell [mailto:ralphmitchell at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 3:49 PM
> To: xymon at xymon.com
> Subject: Re: [xymon] Is setting high importance on alert emails possible?
>
> I haven't tested it, but something like this ought to do it:
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> case $BBCOLORLEVEL in
> red)
> STATUS="CRITICAL"
> ;;
> yellow)
> STATUS="WARNING"
> ;;
> purple)
> STATUS="stopped reporting"
> ;;
> *)
> STATUS="unknown status"
> ;;
> esac
>
> MESSAGE="To: $RCPT
> Subject: $BBHOSTNAME $STATUS
> Content-Type: text/plain
> X-Priority: 1 (Highest)
> X-MSMail-Priority: High
>
> $BBALPHAMSG"
>
> echo "$MESSAGE" | sendmail -t
> exit 0
>
>
> Ralph Mitchell
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Nordquist, Daniel <
Daniel.Nordquist at orlandohealth.com<mailto:Daniel.Nordquist at orlandohealth.com>>
wrote:
> Thank you!
>
> 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?
>
>
> From: Ralph Mitchell [mailto:ralphmitchell at gmail.com<mailto:
ralphmitchell at gmail.com>]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 11:46 AM
> To: xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com>
> Subject: Re: [xymon] Is setting high importance on alert emails possible?
>
> There's an email header that needs to be inserted. Here's an example:
>
> http://techonthenet.com/unix/high_priority.php
>
> 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...
>
> Ralph Mitchell
>
> On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Josh Luthman <
josh at imaginenetworksllc.com<mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com>> wrote:
> I think if it's available with the command Henrik made it would have
> been documented. If not documented, I'd count on it not existing.
>
> What you'll probably need to do is call upon your own script to send
> the email and you can change that with whatever mail command you use.
>
> Josh Luthman
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>
>
> On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Nordquist, Daniel
> <Daniel.Nordquist at orlandohealth.com<mailto:
Daniel.Nordquist at orlandohealth.com>> wrote:
>> Hey all, I doubt I can do this but maybe someone knows a trick...
>>
>>
>>
>> I'd like to be able to send email alerts with a high importance flag
based
>> on the alert color and/or specific server or service that is down.
>>
>>
>>
>> Is there any way to do this? I've scoured the man pages but can't find
>> anything.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Dan
>>
>>
>>
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