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diff --git a/health/notifications/custom/README.md b/health/notifications/custom/README.md index a9300551..627dd9d4 100644 --- a/health/notifications/custom/README.md +++ b/health/notifications/custom/README.md @@ -5,6 +5,36 @@ To configure custom notifications, you will need to define the `custom_sender()` You can look at the other senders in `/usr/libexec/netdata/plugins.d/alarm-notify.sh` for examples. As with other notifications, you will also need to define the recipient list in `DEFAULT_RECIPIENT_CUSTOM` and/or the `role_recipients_custom` array. +The following is a sample `custom_sender` function to send an SMS via an imaginary HTTPS endpoint to the SMS gateway: +``` + custom_sender() { + # example human readable SMS + local msg="${host} ${status_message}: ${alarm} ${raised_for}" + + # limit it to 160 characters and encode it for use in a URL + urlencode "${msg:0:160}" >/dev/null; msg="${REPLY}" + + # a space separated list of the recipients to send alarms to + to="${1}" + + for phone in ${to}; do + httpcode=$(docurl -X POST \ + --data-urlencode "From=XXX" \ + --data-urlencode "To=${phone}" \ + --data-urlencode "Body=${msg}" \ + -u "${accountsid}:${accounttoken}" \ + https://domain.website.com/) + + if [ "${httpcode}" = "200" ]; then + info "sent custom notification ${msg} to ${phone}" + sent=$((sent + 1)) + else + error "failed to send custom notification ${msg} to ${phone} with HTTP error code ${httpcode}." + fi + done +} +``` + Variables available to the custom_sender: - ${to_custom} the list of recipients for the alarm |