MAIL SENDER

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This script is designed to create an email alert when an Event occurs. The script must be run from an Event Automatic Action.

Contents 1 Script Properties 2 Run Type 3 Script Text 4 Additional Editing 5 Related Resources

[edit] Script Properties

Name: MAIL_SENDER
Description: This script will create an email alert when an Event occurs.
Profile: CONSOLE_MANAGER
Timeout: 30 (seconds)

[edit] Run Type

Run as Event Automatic Action

[edit] Script Text

// * Copyright 1999-2012 TDi Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. *
// * The information in this software is subject to change without   *
// * notice and should not be construed as a commitment by TDi.      *
// * Created: 2/15/2012                                              *

loadPlugin("SMTP");

if (action.type == "NEW") {
  evtOccName = action[action.type];     // get the name of the event occurence that triggered the script
  consoleName = action.console;		// get the name of the console the event occurred on
  myConsole = Console.get(consoleName);
  myEvtOcc = EventOccurrence.get(evtOccName);
  myEvent = Event.get(myEvtOcc.actname);
  myServer = ServerConfig.get("meta");
  
  // get and format the Event time
  var date = new Date(myEvtOcc.acttime*1000);
  var months = ["Jan","Feb","Mar","Apr","May","Jun","Jul","Aug","Sep","Oct","Nov","Dec"];
  var month = months[date.getMonth()];
  var day = date.getDate();
  var year = date.getFullYear();
  var hours = ("0"+date.getHours()).slice(-2);		// add leading zero
  var minutes = ("0"+date.getMinutes()).slice(-2);	// add leading zero
  var seconds = ("0"+date.getSeconds()).slice(-2);	// add leading zero
  var timestamp = month+" "+day+" "+year+" "+hours+":"+minutes+":"+seconds;
  
  // build the email message
  var msg = new Object();
  msg.CWServer = "cwserver.domain.com";			// *** put your ConsoleWorks server host name here
  msg.server = "mailserver.domain.com";			// *** put your SMTP mail server host name here
  msg.fromAddress = "alert@consoleworks.com";		// *** put the from address here
  msg.toAddresses = new Array();
  msg.toAddresses[0] = "email@inbox.com";		// *** put your to address here
  msg.toAddresses[1] = "another.email@inbox.com";	// *** add additional to addresses as needed (remove if not needed)
  msg.subject="ConsoleWorks Event: "+myEvtOcc.actname+" has occured on "+consoleName;
  
  msg.body = "A ConsoleWorks Event has occurred.\n";
  msg.body += "SERVER: "+ myServer.serverhost + "\n";
  msg.body += "PORT: "+ myServer.serverport + "\n";
  msg.body += "CONSOLE: "+ myEvtOcc.console + "\n";
  msg.body += "ALIAS: "+ myConsole.alias + "\n";
  msg.body += "EVENT NAME: "+ myEvtOcc.actname + "\n";
  msg.body += "SEQUENCE: " + evtOccName + "\n";
  msg.body += "DESCRIPTION: " + myEvtOcc.description  + "\n";
  msg.body += "SUBSYSTEM: " + myEvent.subsystem  + "\n";
  msg.body += "CLASS: "+ myEvent.class + "\n";
  msg.body += "TIME: " + timestamp + "\n";
  msg.body += "PRIORITY: " + myEvtOcc.severitysort + "\n";
  msg.body += "SEVERITY: " + myEvtOcc.severity + "\n";
  msg.body += "PATTERN: " + myEvent.pattern + "\n";
  msg.body += "LINES ABOVE: " + myEvent.lines_above + "\n";
  msg.body += "LINES BELOW: " + myEvent.lines_below + "\n";
  msg.body += "CONTEXT BEGIN>\n" + myEvtOcc.evtcontext + "\n<Context END\n";
  msg.body += "REGEX BEGIN>\n" + myEvtOcc.regexcontext + "\n<REGEX END";

  SMTPMailer.send(msg);
}else{
  log("CONWRKS", "Error: This is script is intended to be run as an Automatic Action.");
}

[edit] Additional Editing

This script does require you to make some edits before it can be used. After copying the script text into your CWScript inside ConsoleWorks, locate the lines that are marked with "// ***" and follow the instructions that are found there.

[edit] Related Resources

To have this script run as an Event Action, you need to create an Automatic Action to run it. Please see our article on Actions for more information.

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