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Alert email message corrupted
Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2016 12:33 am
by Fred Kroeger
I'm using the system default email template to send emails for alerts. All work as expected - but a couple of extra = characters appear in the message body.
Windows User Login Check came back with a WARNING state at Fri= 01 Apr 2016 10:55:01 +0800
The alert was processed with the following thresholds:
• Lookback period: 30m
• Warning: 1
• Critical: 3
Here is the full alert output:
WARNING: 2 matchin= entries found |logs=2;1;3
Where the extra = characters are embedded are macro strings
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<p>%alertname% came back with a <b>%state%</b> state at <b>%time%</b></p>
and
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Here is the full alert output:
<div style="padding: 10px; background-color: #F9F9F9;">%output%</div>
Any ideas on what's happening ? Am running NLS 1.4.0
regards... Fred
Re: Alert email message corrupted
Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2016 10:37 am
by tmcdonald
We saw a similar report not too long ago:
https://support.nagios.com/forum/viewto ... 38&t=37543
And we're thinking it might be related to an Exchange server - you wouldn't happen to be running Exchange, would you?
Re: Alert email message corrupted
Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2016 4:24 pm
by Fred Kroeger
Yes - using Office 365 and Outlook client.
It is similar to the post you refer to , however mine are just changes to the normal text in email body - not specifically an URL.
Considering I don't have any problems with this exchange server with emails from NagiosXI or NNA , and that these character changes are only from Macro strings, I would suspect that there is a problem with NLS.
regards.... Fred
Re: Alert email message corrupted
Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2016 4:44 pm
by hsmith
Would it be possible for you to a TCPDump of when an alert goes out?
@jolson did that awhile back, and found that NLS was sending the email with all of the correct characters and information. This would be something useful for us to see so we know what we're dealing with.
Re: Alert email message corrupted
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2016 7:15 pm
by Fred Kroeger
I captured both an email that was generated by the Test Email & one for an alert
You can see from the Alert email that we are actually sending the "=" from NLS
Interestingly also are the checksum errors
Re: Alert email message corrupted
Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2016 12:55 pm
by hsmith
All right, I can see where it is in the TCPDump.
Is this running on a clean / minimal CentOS 6/7 system? I want to try to replicate it.
What locale is the system?
My main NLS is on CentOS 7, but if you're running 6 I can spin one up to try to test that.
Re: Alert email message corrupted
Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2016 5:45 pm
by Fred Kroeger
It's the standard ESX NLS VM from the download site. So yes it is CentOS 6. It was an older version that has been upgraded to the latest.
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LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
Re: Alert email message corrupted
Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2016 1:52 pm
by hsmith
I've sent this threads to the developers for them to weigh in.
Re: Alert email message corrupted
Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2016 5:25 pm
by Fred Kroeger
Any updates on this ?
Re: Alert email message corrupted
Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2016 6:35 pm
by hsmith
They made a change in the latest revision that may have fixed the issue. We don't have an exchange environment, and I haven't seen it replicated in a test one, so I can't tell you for sure the fix fixed it for you. I'll see if I can get some information tomorrow when we are back in the office about when to expect another release. Right now I don't have that information.