3.4.0 Matrix Server Administration Guide

Chapter 14: Configure Notifiers 172

Enable a Notifier

Select the notifier to be enabled from the Notifiers window, right-click,

and select Enable.

To enable a notifier from the command line, use this command:

mx notifier enable <notifier> ...

Test a Notifier

Select the notifier to be tested from the Notifiers window, right-click, and

select Test. The event messages for each configured entity will now be

sent to the notifier.

To test a notifier from the command line, use this command:

mx notifier test <notifier> ...

Notifier Message Format

Notifier messages have the following format:

<Source> <Event> <Entity> <Event code number> <Date and

time> <Text>

Source: The source IP address of the server that generated the global

event, or the string “

LOCAL” for events generated locally on that server.

Event: One of State, Error, Warn, or Info.

Event code number: Either a three-digit number representing the event

or the number 0 (zero). The number 0 means that the message was

generated by a test of a notifier.

Date and Time: Represented as mmm dd yyyy hh:mm:ss.

Text: The full text description of the event. The text can include specific

Matrix information that can cause the format to vary significantly.

Sample Notifier Messages

Following is an example of a notifier message:

10.10.1.1 State VHOSTS 130 Oct 31 2000 13:13:00 Virtual

host change - 10.1.1.1 now active on 10.10.1.1