E-mail Alert

[Karen Maduka]

How do you set up an e-mail alert when a thread is down?  

Thank you,

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[Chris Williams]

In our HP-UX world, we added a line to the alert file, selected the appropriate triggers, and on the Action tab, selected EXEC and then filled in the appropriate command. For us it is:

sendmail -Fhci username@domain.com < $HOME/MsgThreadDown

We keep the text of the messages for the different alerts in separate files and send the email to my pager.

[James Cobane]

Karen,

In the AIX world the command for the ‘exec’ action would be:

mail -s “%A” someone@somwhere.com < "%F" You can use the %A and %F variables; these contain the actual alert message (%A), and the temporary file name (%F) that contains the text of the alert message.  If the subject alone suffices for you, then you can use /dev/null instead of “%F” in the above command. Hope this helps. Jim Cobane Henry Ford Health

[Karen Maduka]

Thank you both for your responses.  Currently we’re on HP-UX, but we are moving to AIX very soon, so this is very helpful info.

Karen

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