Re: need program to send an alarm to my pager

Not having a text pager (yet), I can only guess, but maybe you should check with your pager service provider. I see that you have specified a subject line, perhaps they only send the subject line if one is provided. Have you tried running the mailx commands from the command line? Try it and send your pager a message with no subject, just to see if the message body is transmitted. > I tinkered with the log_full.sh script that comes with Informix to try to > accomplish this very thing. You'll need an alpha pager to make this work. > This is what I have so far. > > PROG=`basename $0` > USER_LIST=informix > EXIT_STATUS=0 > DBA_ADDRESS="[my pager's e-mail address]" > INFORMIXDIR=[the appropriate INFORMIXDIR path]> > EVENT_SEVERITY=$1 > EVENT_CLASS=$2 > EVENT_MSG="$3" > EVENT_ADD_TEXT="$4" > EVENT_FILE="$5" > > case "$EVENT_SEVERITY" in > 3 | 4 | 5) > cat "Severity: $1" "Class: $2" $3 $4 $5 > > $INFORMIXDIR/etc/alertdba.msg > mailx -s "DBA ALERT ON [servername]" $DBA_ADDRESS < > $INFORMIXDIR/etc/alertdba.msg > ;; > > *) > # EXIT_STATUS=1 > ;; > esac > > EXIT_STATUS=$? > > exit $EXIT_STATUS > > I've called the above script alertdba.sh. If you implement something like > this, make sure that the ALARMPROG parameter in your onconfig file points to > this script. > > You'll probably recognize some of the structure of log_full.sh in here. All > I did was add my pager's e-mail address, and change the central CASE > statement to send me anything of severity 3, 4 or 5. > > I should mention that I haven't gotten this program to work perfectly yet. > It has gone off only once, and I did get a page with the appropriate > subject, but the body of the message, (which should have told me what the > problem was), didn't come through. Even though it didn't tell me what the > problem was, it told me THAT there was a problem, and I came back and fixed > it. > > If anyone knows why I didn't get the body of the message in my e-mail page, > I'd welcome any de-bugging advice. Thanks. > > Hope this helps, Mark Collins mcollins@us.dhl.com The problem lies in how easily and dangerously we forget that manipulating things is not the same as understanding them.