[log4j] SMTPAppender and Threshold INFO

[kaobe]

Hi there,

I have some questions concerning the SMTPAppender. I wanted to test it and therefore put the Threshold to INFO. Unfortunately I got no messages. I tried several days with different configurations but nothing changed.
Then I changed the jboss setup that I get some errors. And - I finally got emails with these messages.
Now my question: What do I have to do to change the threshold of the SMTPAppender?
Here ist the important part of my log4j.xml:

<!-- EMail events to an administrator -->
<appender name="SMTP" class="org.apache.log4j.net.SMTPAppender">
 <errorHandler class="org.jboss.logging.util.OnlyOnceErrorHandler"/>
 <param name="Threshold" value="DEBUG"/>
 <param name="To" value="admin@127.0.0.1"/>
 <param name="From" value="admin@127.0.0.1"/>
 <param name="Subject" value="JBoss WARN message"/>
 <param name="SMTPHost" value="127.0.0.1"/>
 <param name="BufferSize" value="512"/>
 <layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout">
 <param name="ConversionPattern" value="[%d{ABSOLUTE},%c{1}] %m%n"/>
 </layout>
</appender>
<!-- -->

<root>
 <appender-ref ref="CONSOLE"/>
 <appender-ref ref="FILE"/>
 <appender-ref ref="SMTP"/>
</root>

Thank you very much in advance for your help!!

Peter

[schrouf]

I encountered the same problem :-) It is caused by the default Log4j trigger for the SMTP-Appender that only triggers EMail send in case of ERRORS....

I have extended the JBoss-Branch3.2-CVS with some more general evaluators for INFO-, WARN- and ERROR-Level-triggering

org.jboss.logging.appender.InfoLevelEventEvaluator
org.jboss.logging.appender.WarnLevelEventEvaluator
org.jboss.logging.appender.ErrorLevelEventEvaluator

He's an example for triggering mail send operation for log messages with level WARN and higher. Hope it will solve your problem :-)

<!-- An EMail appender -->
 <appender name="SMTP_System" class="org.apache.log4j.net.SMTPAppender">

 <errorHandler class="org.jboss.logging.util.OnlyOnceErrorHandler"/>

 <param name="EvaluatorClass" value="org.jboss.logging.appender.WarnLevelEventEvaluator" />
 <param name="Threshold" value="WARN"/>
 <param name="To" value="[e-mail]"/>
 <param name="From" value="[e-mail]"/>
 <param name="Subject" value="Server-Log-Message [<host>:${jboss.server.name}]"/>
 <param name="SMTPHost" value="your.mailhost.com"/>
 <param name="BufferSize" value="10"/>

 <layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout">
 <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%d %-5p [%c] %m%n"/>
 </layout>

 </appender>

[kaobe]

Hi Ulf,

thank you very much for your help.
Unfortunately I have no access to CVS outside of the company.
Would it be possible for you to send me these three files via email?
My address is: [e-mail]
Thank you very much for your help!

Peter

[aalmero]

add

<appender-ref ref="SMTP"/>


remove
<appender-ref ref="SMTP"/>

this is working with my setup.

[aalmero]

please disregard earlier post.

add

 <category name="com.your.package">
 <appender-ref ref="SMTP"/>
 </category>

remove from your config

<appender-ref ref="SMTP"/>

works well with my setup