[Check_mk (english)] Best way to setup two types of alerts...html and plain text? Got one working, need a way of handling a second method.

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Hi

So we’ve got check_mk configured to send email alerts as html with embedded/encoded graphs for host and service events…now we need to send plain text emails to an alphanumeric pager and I can’t see any way to do this via WATO as all contacts are created with the default notification commands as defined in check_mk.py.

Would the best way to setup this plain text alert, leaving my html alerts in place, be via a contacts.cfg file and just a manual definition for this pager?

Thanks

J

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Hi
No problem...we didn't develop it...just tuned it for use in our environment...here is the page I found the scripts on :slight_smile: Which I believe was passed onto me

http://nagios.frank4dd.com/howto/nagios-flexible-notifications.htm

Cheers

J

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-----Original Message-----
From: Florian Heigl [mailto:fh@mathias-kettner.de]
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 4:14 AM
To: Jason Humes
Subject: Re: [Check_mk (english)] Best way to setup two types of alerts...html and plain text? Got one working, need a way of handling a second method.

Hi Jason,

could you consider sharing the html mail config with the rest of the list?
I think there's a few dozen people who tried that with differing success.

Beyond that I think you'll have to override the notification command to one that will be your "mulitplexer" for notification methods.

I take it you're already using the new WATO since you wrote about adding contacts, right?

Florian
On 03/13/2012 07:20 PM, Jason Humes wrote:

Hi

So we've got check_mk configured to send email alerts as html with
embedded/encoded graphs for host and service events.now we need to
send plain text emails to an alphanumeric pager and I can't see any
way to do this via WATO as all contacts are created with the default
notification commands as defined in check_mk.py.

Would the best way to setup this plain text alert, leaving my html
alerts in place, be via a contacts.cfg file and just a manual
definition for this pager?

Thanks

J

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How now looking at using this on our new 1.2.0b1 check_mk site...it no longer works due to the HOST rrd files being multiple instead of a single rrd. I see there seems to be a newer version of the script (newer than we use here) which does a wget to grab to pnp4nagios generated png and then encodes that...might be worth looking into, but it doesn't seem to work out of the box. I'll post more if I get this working again. But if you are using an older check_mk which uses the single _HOST_.rrd files, the scripts should work with minor tuning.

Thanks

J

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-----Original Message-----
From: checkmk-en-bounces@lists.mathias-kettner.de [mailto:checkmk-en-bounces@lists.mathias-kettner.de] On Behalf Of Jason Humes
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 9:32 AM
To: Florian Heigl; checkmk-en@lists.mathias-kettner.de
Subject: Re: [Check_mk (english)] Best way to setup two types of alerts...html and plain text? Got one working, need a way of handling a second method.

Hi
No problem...we didn't develop it...just tuned it for use in our environment...here is the page I found the scripts on :slight_smile: Which I believe was passed onto me

http://nagios.frank4dd.com/howto/nagios-flexible-notifications.htm

Cheers

J

-----Original Message-----
From: Florian Heigl [mailto:fh@mathias-kettner.de]
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 4:14 AM
To: Jason Humes
Subject: Re: [Check_mk (english)] Best way to setup two types of alerts...html and plain text? Got one working, need a way of handling a second method.

Hi Jason,

could you consider sharing the html mail config with the rest of the list?
I think there's a few dozen people who tried that with differing success.

Beyond that I think you'll have to override the notification command to one that will be your "mulitplexer" for notification methods.

I take it you're already using the new WATO since you wrote about adding contacts, right?

Florian
On 03/13/2012 07:20 PM, Jason Humes wrote:

Hi

So we've got check_mk configured to send email alerts as html with
embedded/encoded graphs for host and service events.now we need to
send plain text emails to an alphanumeric pager and I can't see any
way to do this via WATO as all contacts are created with the default
notification commands as defined in check_mk.py.

Would the best way to setup this plain text alert, leaving my html
alerts in place, be via a contacts.cfg file and just a manual
definition for this pager?

Thanks

J

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