Plugins: [FR] NUT - Email-Notifications

Created on 6 Aug 2020 · 6Comments · Source: opnsense/plugins

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
No.

Describe the solution you'd like
It would be nice if it would be possible to enable email-notifications about power-failures directly in the plugin-gui.
Maybe also to configure the notify-flags for special events (Online,Offline,Lowbatt,Shutdown...) in the GUI.

Describe alternatives you've considered
An alternative could be to integrate it into Monit somehow.

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AndyX90

Most helpful comment

I think I can add this on Friday

mimugmail on 10 Nov 2020

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Is this possible within NUT when just using config files? Otherwise you could watch the log via monit

mimugmail on 6 Aug 2020

@mimugmail I think so, except the mailer-part. See here: https://freekode.org/nut-sending-emails/

AndyX90 on 6 Aug 2020

Are we allowed to vote for these requests?

I would also like the ability to enable email notification from the plugin UI. I am not much of a programmer, but I could envision using the same technique you used for adding user-specified options for the ups.conf file. From ups.conf

{%     if helpers.exists('OPNsense.Nut.usbhid.args') and OPNsense.Nut.usbhid.args != '' %}
{%       for args in OPNsense.Nut.usbhid.args.split(',') %}
{{ args }}
{%       endfor %}
{%     endif %}

Add a helper such as OPNsense.Nut.upsmonconf.args and then in the UI a user could add something like (taken from AndyX90's freekode.org reference above):

NOTIFYCMD "/usr/local/etc/nut/notifycmd", NOTIFYFLAG ONLINE SYSLOG, NOTIFYFLAG ONBATT SYSLOG, NOTIFYFLAG LOWBATT SYSLOG+EXEC, NOTIFYFLAG FSD SYSLOG+EXEC

which would be appended to /usr/local/etc/upsmon.conf as:

NOTIFYCMD "/usr/local/etc/nut/notifycmd"
NOTIFYFLAG ONLINE       SYSLOG
NOTIFYFLAG ONBATT       SYSLOG
NOTIFYFLAG LOWBATT      SYSLOG+EXEC
NOTIFYFLAG FSD          SYSLOG+EXEC

PS: plugins/sysutils/nut already for some reason includes an example upsmon.conf.samples file that has a similar example inside.

Thanks for your consideration.