Unsolved I need this script to email the log it generates
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@stacksofplates said in I need this script to email the log it generates:
@Pete-S said in I need this script to email the log it generates:
@stacksofplates said in I need this script to email the log it generates:
@JaredBusch said in I need this script to email the log it generates:
@stacksofplates said in I need this script to email the log it generates:
Another plus for an API is that snmp is commonly blocked from providers and only enabled with some kind of request.
Also if you want to integrate any other notification (text, telegram notification, slack, etc) it would be trivial to add with this approach.
Not saying API is the best way, but it definitely has advantages.
I have not had time to look at what you posted yet but I plan on it thank you
Yeah no problem. It's really simple so it could be optimized quite a bit with maybe like 30 mins of work.
Wouldn't just using
curldo the job equally well of sending the message to mailgun?Yep. If you really like handling errors and responses in shell scripting it's fine. Unless you use it on Windows where cURL is not really cURL.
I'm not doing raw API calls with the example above. That's using their Go package which simplifies a lot of the API information.
OK, I understand. Thanks.
How is it with the maintenance with APIs like this? I mean when you compile something and have to support it over time, it's just like being a package maintainer. If they change the API or their Go package or perhaps OS or Go version, you'd have to recompile and redistribute it to every machine. Or is this something that would only happen very seldom like every two years or something like that?
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@Pete-S said in I need this script to email the log it generates:
@stacksofplates said in I need this script to email the log it generates:
@Pete-S said in I need this script to email the log it generates:
@stacksofplates said in I need this script to email the log it generates:
@JaredBusch said in I need this script to email the log it generates:
@stacksofplates said in I need this script to email the log it generates:
Another plus for an API is that snmp is commonly blocked from providers and only enabled with some kind of request.
Also if you want to integrate any other notification (text, telegram notification, slack, etc) it would be trivial to add with this approach.
Not saying API is the best way, but it definitely has advantages.
I have not had time to look at what you posted yet but I plan on it thank you
Yeah no problem. It's really simple so it could be optimized quite a bit with maybe like 30 mins of work.
Wouldn't just using
curldo the job equally well of sending the message to mailgun?Yep. If you really like handling errors and responses in shell scripting it's fine. Unless you use it on Windows where cURL is not really cURL.
I'm not doing raw API calls with the example above. That's using their Go package which simplifies a lot of the API information.
OK, I understand. Thanks.
How is it with the maintenance with APIs like this? I mean when you compile something and have to support it over time, it's just like being a package maintainer. If they change the API or their Go package or perhaps OS or Go version, you'd have to recompile and redistribute it to every machine. Or is this something that would only happen very seldom like every two years or something like that?
I haven't seen it happen much where they would break the API often. If they were to do a big API change like that you'd likely have a good bit of notice. The packages for Go are versioned in the modules, so you can pin them to limit changes.
Looks like Mailgun is currently on /v3 of their API but some endpoints still use /v1 or /v2. The package would handle that for you since it's maintained by them.
One more advantage specifically with Go, is that you can containerize this easily. This could be done in a scratch container which has 0 dependencies. Then you could just run this with Docker/podman/whatever and easily keep the container up to date across all of your systems. I'm sure Jared wouldn't be doing that here, just a side note.
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@Pete-S said in I need this script to email the log it generates:
OK, I understand. Thanks.
Also, I wasn't trying to be abrasive. I kind of worded that strongly. I just don't like Bash much. I find it annoying, so I'd rather use something else unless it's a really simple thing.
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@stacksofplates said in I need this script to email the log it generates:
@Pete-S said in I need this script to email the log it generates:
OK, I understand. Thanks.
Also, I wasn't trying to be abrasive. I kind of worded that strongly. I just don't like Bash much. I find it annoying, so I'd rather use something else unless it's a really simple thing.
No problem. Bash is primitive for sure. Pick the right tool for the job I guess.
