[Xymon] Trouble With Alert Format

[Josh Luthman]

Kris,

I would love to see Slack alerts if you wouldn't mind.

On Wed, May 4, 2022 at 12:54 PM Kris Springer <kspringer at innovateteam.com>
wrote:

> Here's some details of how I send email alerts. They're completely
> customizable.  Hope it helps.
> http://www.krisspringer.com/posts/xymon-email-alerts.php
>
> I have since switched to Slack alerts instead of emails, but those are a
> bit more complex. Let me know if you want instructions for that.
>
> Kris Springer
>
>
> On 5/4/22 09:38, Adam Thorn wrote:
> > On 04/05/2022 12:22, Jonathan Bishop wrote:
> >> Hello fellow xymoners,
> >>
> >> I have recently setup monitoring of the existence of files in a
> >> particular directory, and this seems to be working well. When I setup
> >> an alert for a "red" condition, I receive an email message with what
> >> appears to be some html tags within it, eg:
> >>
> >>        &red <a
> >> href="/xymon-cgi/svcstatus.sh?CLIENT=myserver.com
> &SECTION=file:/path/to/myfile">/path/to/myfile</a>
> >>        File is a  - should be file
> >>
> >> I have tried setting the alert "FORMAT" to TEXT, PLAIN and SMS, but
> >> this doesn't seem to have any effect. I have also tried sending the
> >> alert through the html_mail.pl extension scripts, and this doesn't
> >> seem to have any effect either. All I really want is a plain text
> >> message, which is easy to read. Does anyone know how I could clean
> >> this up?
> >>
> >> Example Alert Config:
> >> HOST=myserver.com
> >>          MAIL alerts at someone.who.cares.com REPEAT=240m COLOR=red
> >> FORMAT=TEXT
> >
> > This may be a red herring, but I wonder if you could try changing the
> > order of the different parts of the config line to e.g.
> >
> > HOST=myserver.com COLOR=red MAIL alerts at someone.who.cares.com
> > FORMAT=TEXT REPEAT=240m
> >
> > Quoting selectively from the stock comments at the top of my
> > alerts.cfg file ....
> >
> > This file is made up from RULES and RECIPIENTS.
> > A RULE is a filter made from ... (etc etc)
> > A RECIPIENT can be a MAIL address, or a SCRIPT. Recipients can also
> > have rules associated with them...
> >
> > ..so for your rule, HOST and COLOR constitute the "RULE", MAIL is the
> > "RECIPIENT", and REPEAT and FORMAT then modify the "RECIPIENT". Your
> > rule mixes together tokens from the RULE and RECIPIENT parts, which
> > might lead to the config rule not being parsed properly.
> >
> > (Or maybe this is nonsense and the order doesn't matter here; I
> > suspect it would take a careful reading of the source to see how the
> > different tokens in that config file get parsed)
> >
> > Adam
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