[Xymon] Trouble With Alert Format

[Kris Springer]

Here's my Slack Alert instructions.
http://www.krisspringer.com/posts/xymon-slack-alerts.php

Kris Springer



On 5/4/22 11:47, Josh Luthman wrote:
> 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
>     <http://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 <http://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 <http://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 <http://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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