Event Monitor Notification

[Nickolas A Gray]

I received the following in my email.

/system/events/core_hw/core_hw is >= 3.
Its current value is CRITICAL(5).

If I hadn't been reading my mail this may have been serious (Maintenance turned off the AC)

Is there a way to hook this up to a modem or can I redirect these messages to another email address for paging.

[Joseph C. Denman]

in your home dir, create a .forward file.

.forward contains email entries.

example:

sysadm1@xxx.com

[Nickolas A Gray]

Once again, I am not being clear enough about what I am trying to accomplish. I am looking to set up an alias that just forwards the messages that come from the source

Event Monitor Notification. Since I have never seen this in Solaris, this must be run through a daemon and hopefully has some configuration options. These notifications are important enough that I want to be paged. I don't want a page everytime a cronjob finishes though.

[SAM TEAM]

You mentioned "Event Monitor Notification"
so I suspect this may have come from EMS.
I haven't seen all of the text of the mail
so I can't know for sure.

As far as I know the only way to administer
EMS is through SAM. From the initial SAM window
you go to "Resource Management" and then on
to "Event Monitoring Service".

[Joseph C. Denman]

I'm not sure on how to separate where the notifications are sent.

There may be an easier way, but this is what I have done. I setup a .forward file to send all root mail to my email account (outlook 2000). I then setup rules for outlook to check for in the subject and text. Based on the rule, an email will be forwarded to my pager.


....jcd....

[Bill Hassell]

As mentioned, you can put a .forward file in root's $HOME directory. You can also fixup the /etc/mail/aliases file which fixes more 'lost' email. The format is:

username: differentuser@remote.com

I would include postmaster, hostmaster, webmaster and mailman aliased to root, and
alias root to your working email address. Then fixup *ALL* machines you manage. Overlooked root email os a very common problem as root users forget to run elm to read root's mail.

[R Madhavan · Accepted solution]

The EMS can be configured with monconfig utility (available in /etc/opt/resmon/lbin). There are lot of monitors available and you can configure to send the messages by e-mail.
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[Carlos Fernandez Riera]

I use monconfig. It allow to define diferent level of alerts and way of notification (snmp, mail...).

monconfig is the correct tool.

[Tim Medford]

Nickolas - The .forward is probably your best option. Your cron jobs should be redirected to a log file anyway, otherwise the root's mail file is going to get huge!

Here's a sample cron:
30 5 * * * /usr/sbin/myjob 1>/tmp/myjob.log 2>&1

This will redirect stdout and stderr to the log file.

Regards,
Tim

[Nickolas A Gray]

I think I have been reprimanded. Ouch! Sorry for the delay in letting you know what worked.
monconfig was definately what I was looking for.