/usr/local/zenoss/Products/ZenModel/UserSettings.py
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def manage_pagerTest(self, REQUEST=None):
''' Send a test page
'''
destSettings = self.getUserSettings(self.getId())
destPagers = [ x.strip() for x in
(destSettings.getPagerAddresses() or []) ]
msg = None
fqdn = socket.getfqdn()
srcId = self.getUser().getId()
testMsg = ('Test sent by %s' % srcId +
' from the Zenoss installation on %s.' % fqdn)
for destPager in destPagers:
result, errorMsg = Utils.sendPage(destPager, testMsg,
self.dmd.pageCommand)
if result:
msg = 'Test page sent to %s' % ', '.join(destPagers)
else:
msg = 'Test failed: %s' % errorMsg
break
if not destPagers:
msg = 'Test page not sent, user has no pager number.'
if REQUEST:
messaging.IMessageSender(self).sendToBrowser(
'Pager Test', msg)
return self.callZenScreen(REQUEST)
else:
return msg

/usr/local/zenoss/Products/ZenUtils/Utils.py
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def sendPage(recipient, msg, pageCommand, deferred=False):
"""
Send a page. Return a tuple: (success, message) where
sucess is True or False.

@param recipient: name to where a page should be sent
@type recipient: string
@param msg: message to send
@type msg: string
@param pageCommand: command that will send a page
@type pageCommand: string
@return: (sucess, message) where sucess is True or False.
@rtype: tuple
"""
import subprocess
env = dict(os.environ)
env["RECIPIENT"] = recipient
msg = str(msg)
if deferred:
from twisted.internet import reactor
protocol = SendPageProtocol(msg)
d = reactor.spawnProcess(
protocol, '/bin/sh', ('/bin/sh', '-c', pageCommand), env)

# Bad practice to block on a deferred. This is done because our call
# chain is not asynchronous and we need to behave like a blocking call.
while protocol.code is None:
reactor.iterate(0.1)

return (not protocol.code, protocol.out)
else:
p = subprocess.Popen(pageCommand,
stdin=subprocess.PIPE,
stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
shell=True,
env=env)
p.stdin.write(msg)
p.stdin.close()
response = p.stdout.read()
return (not p.wait(), response)

I'll add logging functionality to sms.sh to see what is passed through to my script.
Somebody know an easy way to manually trigger a pagecommand

Can somebody enlight me on the above issue It's pretty useless having no text in the SMS....