[j-nsp] email from commit or op script?

[Truman Boyes]

On 17/02/2010, at 3:57 AM, Phil Shafer wrote:

> Bill Marquette writes:
>> Is there any way to send email from an op script?
> 
> No, sorry.  We do snmp, syslog, or transfer, but not email.  My
> thoughts were always that email notifications should be done at
> a central server to avoid floods.  But this is an increasingly
> common feature request.
> 
> Thanks,
> Phil

You can of course send syslog messages to syslog-ng and have syslog-ng call mail or a mail wrapper. I would prefer to have simple syslog messages (ie. log of some event or state) and then have additional functionality in parsing at a central location.

Kind regards,
Truman