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Re: [Q] Alert string
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Christian Hopp |
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Re: [Q] Alert string |
Date: |
Wed, 30 Apr 2003 16:08:17 +0200 (CEST) |
On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, Jan-Henrik Haukeland wrote:
>
> Does anyone use the alert statement with a single username instead of
> a full email address? Like "alert foobar" instead of "alert
> address@hidden" If the former is used monit adds the hostname to the
> username to compose a "real" email address, as shown in this excerpt
> from the parser:
Not me... but user who do not read the list might use it.
> alertmail : ALERT MAILADDR { $<string>$= $2; }
> | ALERT STRING { $<string>$= append_hostname($2); }
>
> The problem is that I would like to use the ALERT STRING part to
> implement the notify program, like
>
> alert "/bin/program" on { checksum }
>
> I do not think many know off and use this "alert username" feature and
> if I do not hear anything I'm planning on changing the semantics for
> the ALERT STRING statement to use it for executing an external
> program.
what about something like
alert "/bin/program --foo @ALERT@ @SERVICE@ @REPORT@ --bar " on {
checksum }
with @FOO@ being subsituted accordingly?
Christian
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- [Q] Alert string, Jan-Henrik Haukeland, 2003/04/30
- Re: [Q] Alert string,
Christian Hopp <=