[xymon] Is setting high importance on alert emails possible?

[Daniel McDonald]

Maybe you are sending a recovered notice on Yellow instead of green?


On 12/22/10 9:24 AM, "Nordquist, Daniel"
<Daniel.Nordquist at orlandohealth.com> wrote:

> Can anyone tell me why this does not change the status on a ³recovered² email?
> It sends the recovered email and says the test is OK (up), but does not change
> the subject line.
>  
>  
> #!/bin/bash
>  
> case $BBCOLORLEVEL in
>   green)
>     STATUS="RECOVERED"
>     ;;
>   red)
>     STATUS="CRITICAL"
>     ;;
>   yellow)
>     STATUS="WARNING"
>     ;;
>   purple)
>     STATUS="stopped reporting"
>     ;;
>   *)
>     STATUS="unknown status"
>     ;;
> esac
>  
> MESSAGE="To: $RCPT
> Subject: $BBHOSTNAME $STATUS
> Content-Type: text/plain
> X-Priority: 1 (Highest)
> X-MSMail-Priority: High
>  
> $BBALPHAMSG"
>  
> echo "$MESSAGE" | sendmail -t
> exit 0
>  
>  
>  
> 
> From: Ralph Mitchell [mailto:ralphmitchell at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 3:49 PM
> To: xymon at xymon.com
> Subject: Re: [xymon] Is setting high importance on alert emails possible?
>  
> I haven't tested it, but something like this ought to do it:
> 
>  
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> 
>  
> 
> case $BBCOLORLEVEL in
> 
>   red)
> 
>     STATUS="CRITICAL"
> 
>     ;;
> 
>   yellow)
> 
>     STATUS="WARNING"
> 
>     ;;
> 
>   purple)
> 
>     STATUS="stopped reporting"
> 
>     ;;
> 
>   *)
> 
>     STATUS="unknown status"
> 
>     ;;
> 
> esac
> 
>  
> 
> MESSAGE="To: $RCPT
> 
> Subject: $BBHOSTNAME $STATUS
> 
> Content-Type: text/plain
> 
> X-Priority: 1 (Highest)
> 
> X-MSMail-Priority: High
> 
>  
> 
> $BBALPHAMSG"
> 
>  
> 
> echo "$MESSAGE" | sendmail -t
> 
> exit 0
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> Ralph Mitchell
> 
>  
>  
> 
> On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Nordquist, Daniel
> <Daniel.Nordquist at orlandohealth.com> wrote:
> 
> Thank you!
>  
> I¹m a noob at this so I¹m not familiar with how to format a script.  Can you
> point me to a good page where I can see some examples?
>  
>  
> 
> From: Ralph Mitchell [mailto:ralphmitchell at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 11:46 AM
> To: xymon at xymon.com
> Subject: Re: [xymon] Is setting high importance on alert emails possible?
> 
>  
> There's an email header that needs to be inserted.  Here's an example:
> 
>  
> 
>   http://techonthenet.com/unix/high_priority.php
> 
>  
> 
> You'll need to change your alert config to use SCRIPT instead of MAIL, then
> write a script to pick up the relevant info from the environment variables
> listed in the xymon-alerts help page.  You don't need to write everything to a
> file, just use a big echo statement and pipe it through sendmail.  The blank
> line between the headers and the message body is important...
> 
>  
> 
> Ralph Mitchell
> 
>  
> 
> On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Josh Luthman <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com>
> wrote:
> I think if it's available with the command Henrik made it would have
> been documented.  If not documented, I'd count on it not existing.
> 
> What you'll probably need to do is call upon your own script to send
> the email and you can change that with whatever mail command you use.
> 
> Josh Luthman
> Office: 937-552-2340
> Direct: 937-552-2343
> 1100 Wayne St
> Suite 1337
> Troy, OH 45373
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Nordquist, Daniel
> <Daniel.Nordquist at orlandohealth.com> wrote:
>> > Hey all, I doubt I can do this but maybe someone knows a trickŠ
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > I¹d like to be able to send email alerts with a high importance flag based
>> > on the alert color and/or specific server or service that is down.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Is there any way to do this?  I¹ve scoured the man pages but can¹t find
>> > anything.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Dan
>> >
>> >
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