Re: Shell script output in monit alert

[Rowan Wookey]

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I've tried exec but that sends mails every time monit runs, so if monit runs 
every 5 minutes I'll get 12 emails per hour, is there a way to set exec to only 
run once the same way alerts do?

Regards

Rowan

On 30 May 2011, at 12:26, Martin Pala wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> you can use "exec" action instead of "alert" to execute custom script which 
> can also send mail (using /usr/bin/mail for example). The script will get 
> information from monit via environment variables, more details here:
> http://www.mmonit.com/monit/documentation/monit.html#environment
> 
> Regards,
> Martin
> 
> 
> On May 30, 2011, at 1:03 PM, Rowan Wookey wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Does anyone know if it's possible to have the output of a shell script 
>> appear in a monit alert. I've tried adding this
>> 
>> set alert address@hidden with mail-format {
>>    message: Monit $ACTION $SERVICE at $DATE on $HOST: $DESCRIPTION.
>>           Yours sincerely,
>>           monit
>>              `free -m`
>> }
>> 
>> 
>> But that doesn't execute the `free -m`
>> 
>> Regards
>> 
>> Rowan
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