{bb} Receiving Email Status Reports for BB

[brent.mccrackin@bell.ca]

Title: Message

I have some systems that cannot be reached by, nor can they directly reach, my Big Brother system.  However, they have their own internal monitoring that can send emails out when various problems happen, and repeat regularly as long as the problem exists, but send nothing when everything is okay.  These emails would be sent to a pager, by design, but the system has very primitive capabilities to define when a page should be sent, and no maintenance window capabilities.

 

I'd like these emails to be sent to BB to be 'filtered' by the paging rules in Big Brother.  BB would receive the emails, and set the status to red with the details of the message.  If no further emails are received after a time has passed, set the status back to green based on the assumption that emails should be received regularly during a problem.

 

 

Does there exist anything that can receive and process emails for BB (I haven't found anything on Deadcat related to this)?

 

Does anyone have any suggestions how best to proceed with this type of setup?

 

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Brent B McCrackin

UNIX Systems Specialist - Bell Sympatico

Brent.McCrackin@Bell.ca   PH: 416-353-0692

"Serenity through viciousness."