[Xymon] Trouble With Alert Format

[Kris Springer]

Yes, I have had issues with line breaks and spaces when copy/pasting.  
Also quotation marks sometimes get screwed up when copying from how-to's 
with certain fonts.  If things don't work when copy/pasting, always 
check line breaks, spaces, and quotation marks.

Kris Springer


On 5/5/22 08:40, Josh Luthman wrote:
> Fantastic guide, thank you!
>
> Just a little gotcha: when copy/paste the guide is offering line 
> breaks which causes issues.  The cat's text:alert line pastes with a 
> line break and that makes the post look like code instead of a pretty 
> link/a href.  Your shell script should NOT have a line break after the 
> pipe.
>
> On Thu, May 5, 2022 at 9:36 AM Kris Springer 
> <kspringer at innovateteam.com> wrote:
>
>     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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