[hobbit] SV: ack an alert with email or phone

[Asif Iqbal]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Kevin Kelly <kkelly at lifetouch.com> wrote:

> Ok, I finally got my xymon server to accept outside mail. Since I am using
> sendmail and the man page has procmailrc, is there a standard configuration
> to use with sendmail?
>
>
all my alerts send from xymon at example.net

( hobbitserver.cfg: MAIL="mailx -r xymon at example.net -s" )

any reply to it goes back to xymon @mx.example.net

mx.example.net then sends it to xymon.example.net, using .qmail.

xymon.example.net's sendmail allows inbound email only from mx.example.net
using tcpserver on xymon.example.net

xymon on xymon.example.net then works w/ hobbit-mailack to ack the alert



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ryan Novosielski [mailto:novosirj at umdnj.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 10:54 AM
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: Re: [hobbit] SV: ack an alert with email or phone
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> Barring that (in my case, changing MX records and mail routing was not
> allowed), you can use fetchmail to pull mail from a valid account on your
> e-mail server and acknowledge based on that. I have done that before.
>
> =R
>
> Johan Sjöberg wrote:
> > You need to make sure that the reply e-mail is sent to the Xymon server.
> > If you, for example, have xymon at yourdomain.com
> > <mailto:xymon at yourdomain.com> as sender for alerts, you need to
> > forward it to Xymon at xymonserver.yourdomain.com
> > <mailto:Xymon at xymonserver.yourdomain.com> in exchange. You also need
> > an MX record for xymonserver.yourdomain.com in DNS, and you need to
> > configure the MTA on your Xymon server to accept mails for
> > @xymonserver.yourdomain.com domain.
> >
> >
> >
> > /Johan
> >
> >
> >
> > *From:* Kevin Kelly [mailto:kkelly at lifetouch.com]
> > *Sent:* den 23 september 2009 22:39
> > *To:* hobbit at hswn.dk
> > *Subject:* RE: [hobbit] SV: ack an alert with email or phone
> >
> >
> >
> > Ok, now when I hit reply on an alert, I get the message back with
> > couldn’t find host. Is there additional steps with an exchange server
> maybe?
> >
> >
> >
> > *From:* Johan Sjöberg [mailto:johan.sjoberg at deltamanagement.se]
> > *Sent:* Wednesday, September 23, 2009 3:03 PM
> > *To:* hobbit at hswn.dk
> > *Subject:* [hobbit] SV: ack an alert with email or phone
> >
> >
> >
> > You only need to configure procmail according to the man-page, and it
> > works out of the box.
> >
> > http://xymon.org/hobbit/help/manpages/man8/hobbit-mailack.8.html
> >
> >
> >
> > /Johan
> >
> >
> >
> > *Från:* Kevin Kelly [mailto:kkelly at lifetouch.com]
> > *Skickat:* den 23 september 2009 20:40
> > *Till:* hobbit at hswn.dk
> > *Ämne:* [hobbit] ack an alert with email or phone
> >
> >
> >
> > Could someone point me some documentation about acknowledging an alert
> > via email or phone.
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
> >
> >
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