Hi,
one of our customers has a very old industrial machinery running, which has a build-in monitoring. However it doesn’t have SNMP or something like that, but can send emails, if something go wrong.
Is it possible to have CheckMK react if such emails are detected somehow and generate an alarm out of it?
Cheers,
Roland.
Yes. With a rule in “Check Email” you can forward the email to The Event Console - Processing logs and SNMP traps. There the emails can be handled and generate events.
Hi @rolandg
another alternative would be to create a specific Mailbox for the machine to send the mails to and use Checkmk to check this Mailbox with the IMAP Mailbox Check:
There you can configure a Warning and Crit amount for Mails.
This solution would only alarm you when a mail is inside the Mailbox. The content of the mail doesn’t matter in this case!
Another idea would be to write a small localcheck script that gathers the mail content from a mailbox and creates a service with the state mapped from the mail content.
Hope this helps 
Greetings
Norm
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