[xymon] on call rotation

[Clark, Sean]

Another way to accomplish this, although outside of xymon, is to have a
mail alias setup


That is the method we took - mainly because other people outside of xymon
can also send an email to "alias"@domain.com



So your rules are 

HOST=blabla
    MAIL=oncall at domain.com



And then outside on the SMTP server for domain.com, we setup aliases that
rotate to the correct people


Not really using xymon in a clever way, but this worked in our setup,
especially with other people being able to just email
Oncall at domain.com and getting the oncall person


-Sean





On 1/31/11 5:53 AM, "Henrik Størner" <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:

>In <DB352625B11C7B449262DE382AD536C539A3C0C68D at maserati.cars.ad> Kenneth
>Falor <kenneth.falor at fcer.com> writes:
>
>>Greetings, my company has a 5 person on call rotation that we just
>>started.=
>> Up to now only 1 person was paged if something went down, I would like
>>to =
>>modify xymon to allow it to change who is emailed/paged based on the
>>week a=
>>nd who is on call that week.  Is this possible?
>
>It's not built into Xymon, but fairly trivial to do with some creative
>configuration of the alerts.cfg (hobbit-alerts.cfg in current versions).
>
>Your alert configuration probably has
>
>  HOST=blabla
>     MAIL joe at example.com
>
>So poor Joe gets all the alerts. Instead, I would do this:
>
>  include oncall.cfg
>
>  HOST=blabla
>     MAIL $ONCALL
>
>and in the oncall.cfg I would put
>
>  $ONCALL=joe at example.com
>
>Then you can update the oncall.cfg file when the on-call person
>changes - via cron, manually, or via some basic script/webpage
>that you setup. Xymon will automatically pick up when the file
>changes.
>
>
>Regards,
>Henrik
>
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