As a possible feature request, would it be possible to have the ability to
specify attachment/s with SMTP alerts? Ideally, I would love to have the
option to either (1) Add a specified file/s as an attachment, and (2) Use
the contents of a specified file as the body of the SMTP message. The
latter is the more important feature for me at this stage.
Here's my situation which may help explain the request or prompt someone to
point me to a better way of achieving my desired result...
I have approx. 30 identical systems scattered around the country I need to
monitor and provide alerting on.
The vendor provides an application that sits on a central PC and will
communicate to the systems and produce a simple log file with some basic
availability and performance statistics. We have written a web app to
produce a "helpdesk-friendly" system status web page based on the log file
and the same web app will produce a simple 1-2 line text file (we 're
calling this our alert trigger file) in the event that a device 'fails'
(ie. goes offline or the performance statistics drop below a specified
threshold). The trigger file name is unique for each of the 30 systems we
are monitoring. If there is no problem, the directory containing these
trigger files is empty.
My plan was to have a SA host check for each of the 30 devices using an
external check that called a batch file that simply checked for the
existence of a trigger file that corresponds to the device specified in the
host check, and if the file exists, return an errorlevel that causes SA to
class the host check as failed and send an SMTP email alert. What I want to
do is get the contents of the trigger file into the body of the SMTP alert.
I can achieve the result by using a command-line SMTP such as Blat!
(http://www.interlog.com/~tcharron/blat.html) to send the email alert and
use the trigger file contents as the message body but if I use Blat! then I
have no record in my SA logs of the alerting process. This is important to
us in the event we need to prove that alerts were sent (and to who and at
what time, etc.) for SLA purposes. The email addresses that the alerts will
be sent to will be different for each device. I'm also wanting to use a
generic script for the trigger file check and pass variables from the SA
host entries to it to save me having to create and maintain a script for
each host entry.
For reference, here is what the trigger file contents look like:
8/09/03 11:54:17 overall success rate 50 %
8/09/03 11:54:17 barcode read rate 50 %
Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated.
Cheers,
Anthony
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