Re: [foxboro] E-mail from Ver 7.1 Unix boxes
- From: Corey R Clingo <corey.clingo@xxxxxxxx>
- To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 13:45:27 -0500
We email system monitor reports every couple of days - not exactly
real-time, but good enough generally for our needs. We set the historians
up to log system monitor messages, and we run an ACE report out of a cron
job to query the data and email it. You could run it, say, every hour and
have a script look for data in the query and send an email if there is
any. I can send some details on our setup off-list if you want.
There's also the "touch /usr/fox/sysmgm/sysmon/sysmon.log" method, to have
system monitor generate a log file, but I've never tried that.
We have Event Driven Scripts too, but we don't use it for real-time system
monitor messages because it has no throttling or aggregation capability
that I can tell, and I don't want to get a hundred emails when one of my
FCMs hiccups. Also, shell metacharacters ("%", ";", "\", etc.) in
argument strings passed to your program (the "script" in Event Driven
Scripts) give it fits because it forks a shell to run your program when an
event occurs. And wildcards are not supported in filter definitions,
though this probably has more impact on the alarm event configuration than
it does for system monitor. But it wasn't too expensive at our pricing,
and it comes with complete source code (believe it or not), so when I get
time I'll probably hack on it some to make it more like what I expected it
to be in the first place :)
Corey Clingo
BASF Corporation
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