[smokeping-users] Performing E-mail Alerts

[John Heyer]

Duh...I knew it was something obvious.

Last question - is it possible to only send the e-mail alert once or
twice and not every 5 minutes?

On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 21:54 -0400, Peter Kristolaitis wrote:
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> You need to actually define your alerts and then assign them to hosts.
> Simple example:
> 
> *** Alerts ***
> to = whoever at somewhere.com
> from = smoke at somewhere.com
> 
> +hostdown
> type = loss
> pattern = <100%,>99%,>99%
> comment = Host is down
> 
> +highping
> type = rtt
> pattern = <50,<50,<50,>300,>300
> comment = Higher than normal ping rate
> 
> *** Targets ***
> probe = yourDefaultProbe
> menu = Foo
> title = Foo Bar
> alerts = hostdown,highping
> 
> +host1
> # Inherits hostdown & highping alerts
> ++host2
> # Inherits hostdown & highping alerts
> ++host3
> # Override alerts: Only use hostdown alerts for this host
> # and its children
> alerts = hostdown
> ++host4
> # Overrides alerts: Disable ALL alerts for this host
> # and its children
> alerts =
> 
> The different ways to set up alert patterns, matchers, etc. are fully
> documented online at
> http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/doc/smokeping_config.en.html or in your
> man pages.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 
> John Heyer wrote:
> | I'm trying to get Alerts up and running to take over for Nagios, and am
> | not getting anywhere.  Anything obvious I'm missing?
> |
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> |
> | # Location of Sendmail
> | sendmail = /usr/sbin/sendmail
> |
> | # tMail config file
> | tmail = /etc/smokeping/tmail
> |
> | *** Alerts ***
> | to = jheyer at real.com
> | from = smokeping at net.real.com
> |
> |
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