Re: Shell script output in monit alert

[Rowan Wookey]

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Ah thanks! I didn't know about the if succeeded option!
Regards

Rowan

On 30 May 2011, at 12:46, Martin Pala wrote:

> You can implement the same functionality in the script ... when the script is 
> executed, create some statefile at the end of the script (e.g. using 
> "/usr/bin/touch /tmp/notification_sent") and make the script skip the 
> notification if that statefile exists (next time it is executed). You can 
> embed removal of the statefile on recovery event so the next time the service 
> recovered and fails again, you'll be notified again.
> 
> Something like this:
> 
>  if failed ... then exec "/usr/local/bin/myscript" else if succeeded then 
> exec "/bin/rm -f /tmp/notification_sent"
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On May 30, 2011, at 1:29 PM, Rowan Wookey wrote:
> 
>> I've tried exec but that sends mails every time monit runs, so if monit runs 
>> every 5 minutes I'll get 12 emails per hour, is there a way to set exec to 
>> only run once the same way alerts do?
>> 
>> Regards
>> 
>> Rowan
>> 
>> On 30 May 2011, at 12:26, Martin Pala wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> you can use "exec" action instead of "alert" to execute custom script which 
>>> can also send mail (using /usr/bin/mail for example). The script will get 
>>> information from monit via environment variables, more details here:
>>> http://www.mmonit.com/monit/documentation/monit.html#environment
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> Martin
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On May 30, 2011, at 1:03 PM, Rowan Wookey wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> Does anyone know if it's possible to have the output of a shell script 
>>>> appear in a monit alert. I've tried adding this
>>>> 
>>>> set alert address@hidden with mail-format {
>>>>  message: Monit $ACTION $SERVICE at $DATE on $HOST: $DESCRIPTION.
>>>>         Yours sincerely,
>>>>         monit
>>>>            `free -m`
>>>> }
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> But that doesn't execute the `free -m`
>>>> 
>>>> Regards
>>>> 
>>>> Rowan
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