Re: [HTCondor-users] How to configure globally notify_user in config file instead of submit files

[Todd Tannenbaum <tannenba@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 4/13/2015 2:31 AM, Sridhar Thumma wrote:
> Ohk. In the same way, is it possible to use notification=error so that
> it sends mail only to failed jobs?

Yes, but a small complication to keep in mind is condor_submit takes 
your submit description file and converts it into a job classad. 
Sometimes this conversion process will result in attribute names or 
values being slightly different, or in string constants (like 'error') 
being converted into integers.  You could look over the Appendix in the 
HTCondor Manual to see details on the job classad attributes, but I find 
it easiest/fastest to just run condor_submit on a submit file and 
inspect the resulting job classad.  Using the "-dump <file>" option to 
condor_submit, which just dumps the job classad out to a file instead of 
actually submitting it, is handy for this purpose.

So with this in mind I figured out how notification is encoded into the 
job classad like so:

  C:\temp\aaa>cat test.sub
  executable = test.bat
  notification = error
  queue

  C:\temp\aaa>condor_submit -dump - test.sub | grep -i notifi
  JobNotification=3

Thus what you want to append to the end of your condor_config is

  NotifyUser = "someone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx"
  JobNotification = 3
  SUBMIT_ATTRS = $(SUBMIT_ATTRS) NotifyUser JobNotification

Hope the above helps,
Todd


> On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 9:36 PM, Todd Tannenbaum <tannenba@xxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:tannenba@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     On 4/7/2015 7:27 AM, Sridhar Thumma wrote:
>
>         Hi,
>
>         I want to send an email to specific email address whenever there
>         is an
>         error in condor. I found that if use notify_user in submit files, it
>         will send email to that user. But, I want to configure that in
>         config
>         file instead of submit file.
>
>         Please suggest me on this.
>
>
>     You can make a default for notify_user in your condor_config file
>     (or condor_config.local) by appending this to the bottom of the file:
>
>        NotifyUser = "someone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:someone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>"
>        SUBMIT_ATTRS = $(SUBMIT_ATTRS) NotifyUser
>
>     Note that the user can still override the address you set in the
>     condor_config by specifying NotifyUser (or notify_user) in the job
>     submit file.
>
>     Hope the above helps,
>     Todd