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keenon_49862
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Jul 29, 2013

email alerts for down nodes

wanting to create a blanket email alert that would send an email alert from any node from any pool that goes down. I have looked at different versions of this and not 100% sure if they will meet the ...
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nitass
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Aug 09, 2013
Could someone please review the syntax below, it does not work for me ? it looks okay to me. the ssmtp.conf is correct, isn't it? have you seen smtp packet sending out?

e.g. 

 /config/user_alert.conf

[root@ve11a:Active:Changes Pending] config  cat user_alert.conf
alert TEST "Pool (.*?) member (.*?) monitor status down." {
        email toaddress="nitass@xxx.com"
        fromaddress="f5admin@yourdomain.com"
        body=""
}

 /var/log/ltm

[root@ve11a:Active:Changes Pending] config  cat /var/log/ltm
Aug  9 09:46:05 ve11a notice mcpd[6732]: 01070638:5: Pool /Common/foo member /Common/200.200.200.101:80 monitor status down. [ /Common/fake: down ]  [ was unchecked for 0hr:0min:7sec ]
Aug  9 09:46:05 ve11a err tmm[11073]: 01010028:3: No members available for pool /Common/foo
Aug  9 09:46:05 ve11a err tmm1[11073]: 01010028:3: No members available for pool /Common/foo

 email

-----Original Message-----
From: f5admin@yourdomain.com [mailto:f5admin@yourdomain.com] 
Sent: Friday, August 09, 2013 9:46 AM
To: Nitass
Subject: 01070638:5: Pool /Common/foo member /Common/200.200.200.101:80 monitor status down. [ /Common/fake: down ] [ was unchecked for 0hr:0min:7sec ]