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Originally Posted by JR22

Hi,

Is it possible to have the computer where your model is running send you an email (text message, or whatever) when either the model finished running, or when it breaks due to an error? I have a desktop computer running my OpenFoam models, and it sometimes takes minutes (when the model breaks) or hours (when the model successfully runs).

Thanks

P.D. I realize this might be more of a Linux than an OpenFoam question, but I bet it is very relevant to modeling.

The most failsafe method to get a message even if the run fails is to call the solver from wrapper-script. That script would capture the output of the run and mail the last 100 lines or so to you (like PBS somebody mentioned further down)

That was the objective part. Here comes the advertisement:

I implemented a general framework for that in pyFoam (in the runner-utilities to be concrete). If a solver started with one of these utilities stops a number of postRunHooks (which are configured by the user in sections that start with the name postRunHook) are run. Currently the concrete hooks that are implemented are
- recording the run in a SQLite database
- contacting a webservice at a specific URL and send some information
The second one I use regularly. It contacts https://pushover.net and that service sends a message to my phone (which case, whether it ended OK etc). The configuration for that (minus my username and the API-key ) is part of the distribution of pyFoam (you'd just have to insert your username/key and set it to enabled) as an example: it is templatable so any similar webservice could be used. Ah. And BTW: this only sends messages if the run took longer than X seconds. That way my phone doesn't get spammed with runs that don't get past the first timestep

Mails could work with these Hooks too, but I haven't had the need for that yet so that is not yet implemented

PS: to use pushover you don't have to use pyFoam. That can be easily accessed from shell-scripts too