Using groovy script to send email (inside a DS or CS)?
We use a resource associated with a specific collector to run scripts using config sources as the mechanism. One of the scripts I am writing now posts to a “UserDisable_Warning” config source a list of users whose suspension is imminent. I would like to use the config source to also send an email to the user, but I’m worried I’m going to have to do a bunch of crazy stuff to set up things on the collector. But I’d rather not use the collector’s exchange to send email, because I dont have direct access to it (go figure) and some of the datasources I’ve seen look like a serious pain to use (Email_TransitTime, for example) as a template. I was wondering if anyone knows a simpler way to send email. When a resource has an alert with an escalation chain that contains an email, I was under the assumption that no exchange server or imap or anything else has to be set up on the collector. Or so I thought. So I’m kinda hoping there is some easy way to avoid having to set up mail stuff on a collector, and just have that collector, via a groovy script, send an email out somehow. Like in my wildest dreams I would import something, and then do java.pipedream.Email.send (“blah@foo.blah”,”LM expiration for blah@foo.blah”,”Dear Blah,\nYour LM account expires in X days.\n\n--MyCompany”). Or at least something not reliant on setting up email servers or clients or etc on the collector. Maybe I’m completely off in the wrong direction. What would be the easiest way to have groovy send an email, preferably with me not having a lot of control of my own collector (even though I’m portal admin; work silos, know what I’m sayin’? :) )? Thanks!Cant get javax.mail.Session to work? (Groovy Datasource or ConfigSource)
Last week or so I asked a question about using groovy to send emails, and I was pointed to some datasources such as email_TransitTime and etc, to use as a template. I’m just getting a chance to look at that this week. And I hit a snag, and I’m not sure if this is user error or something else. I snagged the code for email_TransitTime and I did what I always do, which is to strip the code down to just the most minimal thing for object creation or for calling the classes etc that I see used, and I immediately hit the problem that the LM Groovy script always tells me: “No such property: Session for class”As it happens on our portal, nobody is even using email_TransitTime, so I cant really be sure, but it seems like something may be wrong on the portal. Here is the code I’m using, this is literally the entirety of the datasource code for now, and I literally just did the imports related to mail that email_TransitTime uses, and then just as that code does, I snag the properties and then try to make a call, without defining anything etc. import com.santaba.agent.groovyapi.expect.Expect; import com.santaba.agent.groovyapi.snmp.Snmp; import com.santaba.agent.groovyapi.http.*; import com.santaba.agent.groovyapi.jmx.*; import org.xbill.DNS.*; //mail? import javax.mail.* import javax.mail.internet.* import javax.mail.search.* //import javax.mail.Session //smtpProps.put("mail.smtp.port", "25"); def smtpProps = System.getProperties(); def smtpSession = Session.getInstance(smtpProps, null); println 0; return 0; So I poked around online for just java and groovy use of javax.mail.Session and I found some similar instances of people having a similar error and they fixed it by putting some other java file somewhere, but I cant control all of this obviously on the LM platform. I guess. But what I’m getting at is that I cant even interact with javax.mail.Session at all, from playing around with it, or trying to import javax.mail.Session directly or anything. Can anyone think of anything obvious going on? I dont see how email_TransitTime could even work on our portal. I’ve never had any issues using classes I’ve seen used in other config sources or datasources, and I’ve even never hit a problem using imports and code examples I see for java generically. I’ve found super simple examples of code online people are doing that basically are doing something just as minimal, and that line “def smtpSession = Session.getInstance(smtpProps, null);” works for them …. at least for those that could get the javax.mail.Session imported or available to them. I’m stumped. Help? :) Thanks!
Am I missing something: No way to specify email body template?
So we needto email specific alerts to our our ticketing system for storage devices and we noticed that the email body can only be what the Alert Message drop down menu is, specified on the Datasources > Datapoint. Why? Can we not specify a different email body template with this product? We just want to create a new "Alert Message" template that is similar to the usual email body that we've been using in our exiting monitoring solution. I understand we can do a 'customized' alert message but then we'd have to do it on every single data point w/in the data-source. ugh! Am I missing something or is this restricted to this method currently?
Additional Retrieval Method for Email Monitoring
The email monitoring and email round-trip monitors are useful metrics when monitoring an on-premises or hosted email system. One one thing that makes this functionality a bit harder for usto implement is the fact that it uses the IMAP protocol to retrieve messages from the email system. Most of our customers are using Exchange on-premises or Exchange Online. Because IMAP is not the preferred protocol for connecting to an Exchange mailbox, this can present us with some challenges. Some customers may have IMAP functionality completely disabled, or they may block the IMAP ports in their firewall. If we had the option to use one of the HTTPS protocols (possibly EWS?) for email retrieval, that would make this feature much more appealing to us. Another nice to have for our customers with on-premises mail servers, would be the option to send the test not only from the device's collector, but from LogicMonitor's data centers as well.