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diff --git a/health/notifications/smstools3/README.md b/health/notifications/smstools3/README.md index 9535c954..d72df4a6 100644 --- a/health/notifications/smstools3/README.md +++ b/health/notifications/smstools3/README.md @@ -1,49 +1,73 @@ -<!-- -title: "SMS Server Tools 3" -sidebar_label: "SMS server" -custom_edit_url: "https://github.com/netdata/netdata/edit/master/health/notifications/smstools3/README.md" -learn_status: "Published" -learn_topic_type: "Tasks" -learn_rel_path: "Setup/Notification/Agent" -learn_autogeneration_metadata: "{'part_of_cloud': False, 'part_of_agent': True}" ---> - -# SMS Server Tools 3 +# SMS Server Tools 3 Agent alert notifications + +Learn how to send notifications to `smstools3` using Netdata's Agent alert notification feature, which supports dozens of endpoints, user roles, and more. + +> ### Note +> +> This file assumes you have read the [Introduction to Agent alert notifications](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/health/notifications/README.md), detailing how the Netdata Agent's alert notification method works. The [SMS Server Tools 3](http://smstools3.kekekasvi.com/) is a SMS Gateway software which can send and receive short messages through GSM modems and mobile phones. -To have Netdata send notifications via SMS Server Tools 3, you'll first need to [install](http://smstools3.kekekasvi.com/index.php?p=compiling) and [configure](http://smstools3.kekekasvi.com/index.php?p=configure) smsd. +## Prerequisites -Ensure that the user `netdata` can execute `sendsms`. Any user executing `sendsms` needs to: +You will need: -- Have write permissions to `/tmp` and `/var/spool/sms/outgoing` -- Be a member of group `smsd` +- to [install](http://smstools3.kekekasvi.com/index.php?p=compiling) and [configure](http://smstools3.kekekasvi.com/index.php?p=configure) smsd -To ensure that the steps above are successful, just `su netdata` and execute `sendsms phone message`. +- To ensure that the user `netdata` can execute `sendsms`. Any user executing `sendsms` needs to: + - have write permissions to `/tmp` and `/var/spool/sms/outgoing` + - be a member of group `smsd` -You then just need to configure the recipient phone numbers in `health_alarm_notify.conf`: + To ensure that the steps above are successful, just `su netdata` and execute `sendsms phone message`. +- terminal access to the Agent you wish to configure -```sh -#------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -# SMS Server Tools 3 (smstools3) global notification options +## Configure Netdata to send alert notifications to SMS Server Tools 3 -# enable/disable sending SMS Server Tools 3 SMS notifications -SEND_SMS="YES" +> ### Info +> +> This file mentions editing configuration files. +> +> - To edit configuration files in a safe way, we provide the [`edit config` script](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/docs/configure/nodes.md#use-edit-config-to-edit-configuration-files) located in your [Netdata config directory](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/docs/configure/nodes.md#the-netdata-config-directory) (typically is `/etc/netdata`) that creates the proper file and opens it in an editor automatically. +> Note that to run the script you need to be inside your Netdata config directory. +> +> It is recommended to use this way for configuring Netdata. + +Edit `health_alarm_notify.conf`, changes to this file do not require restarting Netdata: -# if a role's recipients are not configured, a notification will be sent to -# this SMS channel (empty = do not send a notification for unconfigured -# roles). Multiple recipients can be given like this: "PHONE1 PHONE2 ..." +1. Set the path for `sendsms`, otherwise Netdata will search for it in your system `$PATH`: -DEFAULT_RECIPIENT_SMS="" + ```conf + # The full path of the sendsms command (smstools3). + # If empty, the system $PATH will be searched for it. + # If not found, SMS notifications will be silently disabled. + sendsms="/usr/bin/sendsms" + ``` + +2. Set `SEND_SMS` to `YES`. +3. Set `DEFAULT_RECIPIENT_SMS` to the phone number you want the alert notifications to be sent to. + You can define multiple phone numbers like this: `PHONE1 PHONE2`. + All roles will default to this variable if left unconfigured. + +You can then have different phone numbers per **role**, by editing `DEFAULT_RECIPIENT_IRC` with the phone number you want, in the following entries at the bottom of the same file: + +```conf +role_recipients_sms[sysadmin]="PHONE1" +role_recipients_sms[domainadmin]="PHONE2" +role_recipients_sms[dba]="PHONE3" +role_recipients_sms[webmaster]="PHONE4" +role_recipients_sms[proxyadmin]="PHONE5" +role_recipients_sms[sitemgr]="PHONE6" ``` -Netdata uses the script `sendsms` that is installed by `smstools3` and just passes a phone number and a message to it. If `sendsms` is not in `$PATH`, you can pass its location in `health_alarm_notify.conf`: +An example of a working configuration would be: -```sh -# The full path of the sendsms command (smstools3). -# If empty, the system $PATH will be searched for it. -# If not found, SMS notifications will be silently disabled. -sendsms="" +```conf +#------------------------------------------------------------------------------ +# SMS Server Tools 3 (smstools3) global notification options +SEND_SMS="YES" +DEFAULT_RECIPIENT_SMS="1234567890" ``` +## Test the notification method +To test this alert notification method refer to the ["Testing Alert Notifications"](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/health/notifications/README.md#testing-alert-notifications) section of the Agent alert notifications page. |