Re: {bb} Adding email alerts

[Philip Clark <bblist@cannae.uklinux.net>]

On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 20:03, Peter J Zeiszler wrote:
> 
> We currently have one group of people being paged for specific alerts
> during specific times.  I am trying to add another group of people that
> would receive pages for some conditions and emails for others.  I am trying
> to find out if I can just add a line at the end of the system groups or if
> I have to add the email groups at the end of each line.
> 
> 
> Here is an example:
> hg-direct;;*;snmp cpu procs net_retrans conn ftp telnet;*;*;pg-direct
> hg-direct;;snmp cpu;;*;*;pg-direct_30
> hg-direct;;procs;;*;*;pg-direct_7
> hg-direct;;memory;;*;*;pg-datalog
> hg-direct;;conn ftp telnet;;*;*;pg-unix_now
> hg-direct;;snmp cpu disk fontchk hpdskchk http lp memory meta msgs nbu
> net_retrans nisck ports temp vx;;*;*;pg-unix-email
> 
> So that for the systems in hg-direct we send the alert to pg-direct ALL of
> the time.
> On the snmp & cpu alerts it goes to the pg-direct_30, process alerts to
> pg-direct_7, memory to pg-datalog, conn ftp telnet alerts to pg-unix_now.
> The last line is what I want to add.  So that every alert generated goes to
> the Unix team email.
> 
> I have a bunch of groups to update.
> 
> I didn't know if I had to put the pg-unix-email group on each of those
> lines or if just adding the last line would also work.

In short, I think either method should work. All the rules lines are
processed and I'm pretty sure that the resulting list of recipients
is made unique. In that way, even if the same recipient is seen
on multiple lines, only one alert is sent.

Also, in relation to your new rule, if you want to send all (or even
most) alerts, you may be better off using a wildcard for the services
column. I think that the following might also get you what you want:

  hg-direct;;*;;*;*;pg-unix-email


Cheers, Phil.



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