[Xymon] not receiving alerts

Sat Nov 9 09:53:46 CET 2013

Here's my alerts.cfg

HOST=*
COLOR=red,yellow
MAIL support at innovateteam.com
RECOVERED
NOTICE

Thank you.
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*Kris Springer*
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On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 11:32 PM, Carl Inglis <Carl.Inglis at rakon.com> wrote:

>  Have you tried sending email as the xymon user rather than as root?
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> *From:* Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] *On Behalf Of *Kris
> Springer
> *Sent:* 09 November 2013 07:30
> *To:* Japheth Cleaver
> *Cc:* xymon at xymon.com
> *Subject:* Re: [Xymon] not receiving alerts
>
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>
> Thanks for the ideas.  But the notifications.log is completely empty.  The
> MAIL lines in xymonserver.cfg match what you suggested.  The permissions
> issue was worth looking into.  When I send a test message I'm always sudo
> root.  I've made the xymon user part of the 'root' group, but that didn't
> help any.  I noticed there's a 'mail' group.  I thought maybe adding the
> xymon user to the 'mail' group may have affected something, but it didn't
> either.  Any more ideas?
>
>
>   Thank you.
>
> ------------------------------------------------
>
> *Kris Springer*
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> *=======================*
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> On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Japheth Cleaver <cleaver at terabithia.org>
> wrote:
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> You should see something in in /var/log/xymon/notifications.log whenever
> xymond_alert thinks it's sending (e.g.) an email off:
>
>
> Fri Nov  8 14:16:33 2013 monitor.example.net.procs (192.168.2.5)
> cleaver at terabithia.org[170] 1383948993 300
>
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> If you see that, then your config logic is probably OK. Double check your
> 'mail' lines in xymonserver.cfg:
>
>
> MAILC="mail"           # Command used to send an e-mail with no subject
> MAIL="$MAILC -s"       # Command used to send an e-mail with a subject
>
>
> If you can send an email by hand, and those binaries are in normal spots,
> perhaps there's a permissions problem? Weird PATH issues? SELinux?
>
>
> HTH,
> -jc
>
>
>
> On Fri, November 8, 2013 3:14 pm, Kris Springer wrote:
> > I'm still trying to find a solution to this.  I haven't been able to
> focus
> > on this for a while.  My alerts are still not sending out.  I assumed
> that
> > maybe Amazon AWS was blocking them for some reason, but I filled out all
> > the forms and supposedly have no blocking going on.  The logs on Xymon
> > don't show me anything that jump out as the problem.  I am able to send
> > test messages using sendmail from the command line with not trouble at
> all
> > to email addresses hosted at Google and Godaddy.  I've checked spam and
> > junk folders but the alerts just aren't getting there.  HELP!  Any
> > suggestion will be attempted, but please don't just make general
> > suggestions like "check the logs" without specifying what exactly I'm
> > supposed to be checking.
> >
> > Thank you.
> > ------------------------------------------------
> > *Kris Springer*
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 3:46 PM, Root, Paul T
> > <Paul.Root at centurylink.com>wrote:
> >
> >> Use: /usr/lib64/xymon/server/bin/xymond_alert --test $* --duration=500
> >> |grep -v Failed
> >> To test what alerts do.
> >>
> >> Look at ~xymon/server/logs/notifications.log (or where ever you have it.
> >> I
> >> have /var/log/xymon) to see what it actually did.
> >>
> >>
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> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Mike Burger
> >> Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2013 11:26 AM
> >> To: Kris Springer
> >> Cc: xymon at xymon.com
> >> Subject: Re: [Xymon] not receiving alerts
> >>
> >> You mentioned looking at logs...the Xymon logs, or /var/log/maillog?
> >>
> >> I'm curious as to what the maillog shows for the events/times in
> >> question.
> >> --
> >> Mike Burger
> >> http://www.bubbanfriends.org
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> >> "It's always suicide-mission this, save-the-planet that. No one ever
> >> just
> >> stops by to say 'hi' anymore." --Colonel Jack O'Neill, SG1
> >>
> >>
> >> > I'm not receiving alerts on red and yellow's.  I set up my server a
> >> > while ago and received many alerts during setup and even after.  But
> >> > about a week ago I stopped receiving the emails.  They're not going to
> >> > spam, and I am able to send emails via command line from the Xymon
> >> > server with no trouble.
> >> >  I've looked in the logs and am not seeing anything.  Xymon is running
> >> > on an Ubuntu v13 box hosted on AWS.  Ideas?
> >> >
> >> > Thank you.
> >> > ------------------------------------------------
> >> > *Kris Springer*
> >> >
> >> > *
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