Customize notification messages to show additional device information

[Hector Akamine]

Hector Akamine [http://community.zenoss.org/people/haa] created the discussion

"Customize notification messages to show additional device information"

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Hello,
I would like to include the following information in a notification message:
- The location of the device
- SNMP information of the device (SNMP SysName, SNMP Description, etc)

I guess I can use something like ${evt/device/+some_variable_here+} to do this. Could it be possible? Read the Core Administration Guide (2.6.2.3 Defining Notification Content), but couldn't find information.

Thank you
Hector
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Yes it's very possible, just the way you describe...what i do is assign a variable within an event transform, somthing like:

evt.test = "test"

and then the notification can reference it with a TALES expression ${evt/test}

Hope this helps,
Joseph
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[jcurry]

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So in a transform, you might have something like:

evt.mySnmpSysLoc = device.snmpLocation
evt.mySnmpSysContact = device.snmpContact
evt.mySnmpStatus = device.getSnmpStatusString()
evt.mySnmpDescr = device.snmpDescr
evt.myMappingSummary = "Event class mapping summary " + evt.mySummary

Then in your notification you have:


Device: ${evt/device}
Component: ${evt/component}
Severity: ${evt/severity}
Time: ${evt/lastTime}
Message:
${evt/message}
Location:
${evt/Location}
SNMP system info:
sys Contact is ${evt/mySnmpSysContact};  snmp status is ${evt/mySnmpStatus}
SNMP Description is ${evt/mySnmpDescr}

<a href="${urls/eventUrl}">Event Detail</a>
<a href="${urls/ackUrl}">Acknowledge</a>
<a href="${urls/closeUrl}">Close</a>
<a href="${urls/eventsUrl}">Device Events</a>


You can see all your custom variables in the event detail so can check them there.

If the notification doesn't quite work correctly, my usual error is either the wrong brackets (they should be curly braces) or non-matching brackets.

Cheers,
Jane
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