On 9/2/11 3:39 PM, Gregory Sloop wrote: > That's neat and all, but it's not clear how I'd include any data on > what the alert is about - what host etc. > > I assume that perhaps the mailtemplate might be helpful, but an > initial read of the docs isn't particularly enlightening.
Read further - it's covered in the 'to' variable description: > Either an email address to send alerts to, or the name of a program > to execute when an alert matches. To call a program, the first > character of the to value must be a pipe symbol "|". The program will > the be called whenever an alert matches, using the following 5 > arguments (except if edgetrigger is 'yes'; see below): name-of-alert, > target, loss-pattern, rtt-pattern, hostname. You can also provide a > comma separated list of addresses and programs. So, 1) name-of-alert 2) target 3) loss-pattern 4) rtt-pattern 5) hostname 6) edgetrigger state (raise=1, clear=0) > I assume you may have done something similar - do you have some > example code, or can you point me to some? > > I'm reasonably proficient in bash, so it's possible I could cobble > something together... It's shockingly simple. Here's some pseudocode: ------- alert=$1 target=$2 loss=$3 rtt=$4 hostname=$5 level=$6 output="$alert:$target $rtt / $loss" echo -e "$hostname\tservice_name\t$level\t$output\n" | /usr/sbin \\ /send_nsca -H nagioshost -c /etc/nagios/nsca.cfg ------- > I still think it would be much better to include SMTP alt-port & auth > etc in the code, along with the required extensions - writing a bash > script etc is really an ugly hack. > > But if I have to settle for a hack, perhaps it's that or nothing. Well, something else I didn't point out is that you _can_ specify a mailhost, which will trigger the use of Net::SMTP, as you were originally hoping: > http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/doc/smokeping_config.en.html#I____General______mandatory_section_ > Instead of using sendmail, you can specify the name of an smtp server > and use perl's Net::SMTP module to send mail (for alerts and DYNAMIC > client script). Several comma separated mailhosts can be specified. > SmokePing will try one after the other if one does not answer for 5 > seconds. ...I don't believe that will meet your port/auth needs, which is why I was suggesting the alternate command method. -tt > TT> On 9/2/11 12:55 PM, Gregory Sloop wrote: >>> >>> I'd like to use the Net::SMTP module instead of sendmail - (Just >>> easier, IMO) and I need to use an alternate port. [Like 26] >>> >>> Is there some way to configure this? I've searched the lists [and >>> Google] and was not able to find anything... > > TT> Greg, > > TT> For alerts you can specify any command you want, so instead of / in > TT> addition to using an email address, you can do something like: > >>> *** Alerts *** >>> # 'to' can be a comma separated list of email addresses or programs >>> to = [email protected],|/path/to/mail-alerts.sh > > TT> ...where mail-alerts.sh is a script you write or find that does what you > TT> want. See the options for the 'to' variable in the Alerts section of > TT> the docs, here: > >>> http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/doc/smokeping_config.en.html#I____Alerts____ > > TT> Cheers, > > TT> -tt > _______________________________________________ smokeping-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/smokeping-users
