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Alerting

Hey guys,

How can I add custom wording to a email alarm? For example instructions to our NOC?

thanks
-Daniel

1 Solution

Solution

A custom script is the best way to accomplish this currently within Splunk.

See this previous thread -> http://splunk-base.splunk.com/answers/621/email-alert-subject

These may also be interesting:

http://splunk-base.splunk.com/apps/22368/php-scripted-alerts

http://splunk-base.splunk.com/apps/22398/use-javamail-for-scripted-alerts

http://splunk-base.splunk.com/apps/22397/use-python-mail-for-scripted-alerts

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Solution

A custom script is the best way to accomplish this currently within Splunk.

See this previous thread -> http://splunk-base.splunk.com/answers/621/email-alert-subject

These may also be interesting:

http://splunk-base.splunk.com/apps/22368/php-scripted-alerts

http://splunk-base.splunk.com/apps/22398/use-javamail-for-scripted-alerts

http://splunk-base.splunk.com/apps/22397/use-python-mail-for-scripted-alerts

I have achieved this by adding a new line to the $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/search/bin/sendemail.py file...but make sure you copy the file first in case it all goes wrong!

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