launch external programs instead of sending email

[sevsky83]

Possible when operated trashhold run an external program, but not send email?

[TheWitness]

It's in the pipeline. Pipeline is clogged with Day job. Trust me, I know.

TheWitness

[lcano]

Uhmmm, i can be interested on that. What do you mean with "It's in the pipeline"? I saw threshold messages in the syslog server messages. The point is how to launch the external script when matched.

[TheWitness]

In other words, it has already been written, just not QA'd (aka completed).

TheWitness

[lcano]

Great news! Looking forward 0.8.8 to be released!

[murlin99]

We are also looking for something similar. Is there any pre release code that we could check out here that supports this feature?

Thanks,
Bryan Vest
CNI Unix Administration

[konrad]

Another way to do this is to use Procmail, or a similar mail filter, and use it to trigger command line events. I used to do that with the IMail server by IPswitch on Windows servers, and Procmail has the *nix world covered in this respect.

Basically use an account that is on the same server as Cacti, and use a filter to trigger based on specific emails. The filter can also forward all or selected emails, so you still get your notifications elsewhere.

[robocp01]

http://svn.cacti.net/viewvc/thold/branc ... ot=Plugins

I've been fooling with it and I'm having some issues with it particulary related to creating and saving a template. It allows you to select script, or snmp write alerting, but can't save it.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks.

[HerronScott]

Has sending threshold alerts via external script or SNMP been rolled into the current deployment or do we still need to load the branch indicated below?

Thanks!

Scott