Alerting

Error in 'sendalert' command: Alert script returned error code 2.

katshima
New Member

I am generating alarms by acquiring abnormal values for CPU usage of NW devices.
I would like to send these alarms via email or webhook, but I get the above error and cannot send them.

What is the cause?

Error in 'sendalert' command: Alert script returned error code 2.

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fredclown
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You can search the internal Splunk logs to see if there are any errors logged. If you run this what do you get?

index=_internal sendemail sourcetype!=splunkd_ui_access sourcetype!=splunkd_remote_searches ERROR

 

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