How to get Notifications for boot-up and shutdown?

[dansushi]

Is there a way to get notifications as UnRaid shuts down and also when it finishes its boot-up process?

I'm using Pushover specifically though I imagine it's the same for all other notification agents.

[itimpi]

Nothing is built in, but you could add an entry to config/go file to log something on startup, and the config/stop file (you may have to create this file) to log something on shutdown.   However the shutdown one may never get out in time before the shutdown completes.

[dansushi]

Sorry for my ignorance, but what kind of text would I have to put in the config/go file to have it create a notification? Is there documentation for this somewhere? Thanks,

[itimpi]

1 hour ago, dansushi said:

Sorry for my ignorance, but what kind of text would I have to put in the config/go file to have it create a notification? Is there documentation for this somewhere? Thanks,

There is the command line tool /usr/local/emhttp/webGui/scripts/notify.  Run it with no parameters to see the options it takes.

[dansushi]

On 11/28/2023 at 6:27 PM, itimpi said:

There is the command line tool /usr/local/emhttp/webGui/scripts/notify.  Run it with no parameters to see the options it takes.

You're the best! It worked like a charm. For any others who want to do the same, here's what I've done below.

 

I've added the following line to the /boot/config/go file:

/usr/local/emhttp/webGui/scripts/notify -i "alert" -s "Bootup" -d "Unraid is fully booted up"

 

and created a file at /boot/config/stop with the following code:

#!/bin/bash

/usr/local/emhttp/webGui/scripts/notify -i "alert" -s "Shutdown" -d "Unraid is shutting down"

 

Despite itimpi's concern that the shutdown notification might not get sent, it in fact does work!

[sittingmongoose]

In case anyone else needs this, I was a little confused by the directions.  To get it to work, the shutdown part should not be in the go file.  You should create a new file in the /boot/config folder.  So /boot/config/alert.bin with the code above.

 

Doing this worked for me, it alerts me when a reboot or shutdown is initialized.