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NetCohort_66543
Nimbostratus
NimbostratusCustom monitor in monitoring / Script forwarding
Dear all,
I have question concerning follwoing:
We used monitors and sending SNMP traps to our Monitoring.
In case of a few custom alerts we want to forward the alert to a script (sh/perl/php/python) with exec command="/tmp/script.sh".
Example:
alert test_UP "Service detected UP for (.*?) monitor (.*?)" {
snmptrap OID=".1.3.6.1.4.1.3375.2.4.0.300";
}
The monitor is assigned to a pool.
How can we read additional information from the alert to the script? In detail we want to forward information like, which pool the monitor is assigend?
Thank you and kind regards
4 Replies
- nitass
Employee
is this helpful?
Generic command in user_alert.conf
https://devcentral.f5.com/Community/GroupDetails/tabid/1082223/asg/44/aft/55956/showtab/groupforums/Default.aspx 
hoolioCirrostratus
Hi NetCohort,
One of the posts linked from Nitass's link is this one:
https://devcentral.f5.com/Community/GroupDetails/tabid/1082223/asg/44/aft/1178752/showtab/groupforums/Default.aspx
There's a request for enhancement tracking the request to pass in the full alert text to a user_alert.conf script:
BZ350418 - log type and messages passed to external commands from alertd
If you're using user_alert.conf scripts, please open a case with F5 Support and ask them to attach your case to the RFE.
Thanks, Aaron- hoolioI forgot to mention, as an ugly workaround, you could create one user_alert.conf entry per pool and then have a custom script per pool if you need to do something per pool. And yes, this is *ugly*. Thus the request for enhancement.
Aaron 
NetCohort_66543Thank you for the reply.
I will check it, but I opened a case with F5 Support, too.
