[Xymon] system reboot email alert

[Bauer-Lee, Sue]

Hello All!

Times have changed a bit in the infrastructure environment such that many have a large contingent of virtual machines and blades. These hosts tend to reboot rather quickly, hence connectivity failures tend to not get noticed. I have a request on the table to send an email alert with a specific subject line to indicate that a host has rebooted.

I've seen a few posts over the years regarding requests to alert for system reboots. I also saw a post or two about adding a dynamic column capability. Some responses suggested an external script to accomplish the task of emailing an alert.

I'm asking the question again because as I peruse the analysis.cfg and review the rules, I know I can issue an email alert for PROC and DISK.
That begs the question of 'why can't I issue an email alert for UP'? I'm fine with the 'yellow' on CPU test for recent reboot, but since it also includes load changes, I'm not interested in a generic email for either one when they occur.

If I already can, how??

And if not, suggestions for a simple approach? I'm not exactly getting the desired results server-wide with an external script that should just send an email for a CPU status color=yellow without interfering with our other configured alerts. :(

Is someone already successfully conquering this task?




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