DESCR Info in Alerts

Hi Henrik,

Since the DESCR tab doesn't get sent automatically (that I know of) to a
custom alert script, what is the easiest way to accomplish obtaining it. The
script is written in Bourne Shell (standard /bin/sh). This is what my
current script looks like (very simple for now):

#!/bin/sh

# Start Section for Time Formatting
#-----------------------------------------------------
mkstring () {
  TIME_VALUE=$1
  UNIT=$2
  if [ $TIME_VALUE -eq 0 ]; then
    OUT=""
  elif [ $TIME_VALUE -eq 1 ]; then
    OUT="1 $UNIT, "
  else
    OUT="$TIME_VALUE ${UNIT}S, "
  fi
  echo "$OUT"
}

seconds2text () {
  # Convert seconds to week/day/hour/minute
  TEMP0=`expr $1 / 60`
  SECOND=`expr $1 - $TEMP0 \* 60`
  TEMP1=`expr $TEMP0 / 60`
  MINUTE=`expr $TEMP0 - $TEMP1 \* 60`
  TEMP2=`expr $TEMP1 / 24`
  HOUR=`expr $TEMP1 - $TEMP2 \* 24`
  TEMP3=`expr $TEMP2 / 7`
  DAY=`expr $TEMP2 - $TEMP3 \* 7`
  WEEK=$TEMP3

  # Build the output string
  STRING="`mkstring $WEEK WEEK`"
  STRING="$STRING`mkstring $DAY DAY`"
  STRING="$STRING`mkstring $HOUR HOUR`"
  STRING="$STRING`mkstring $MINUTE MIN`"
  STRING="$STRING`mkstring $SECOND SEC`"

  # Remove the trailing comma
  DOWNSECS=`echo $STRING | sed 's/,$//'`

}

# If the seconds don't equal zero (ie event just started) then format the
duration
if [ $DOWNSECS -ne 0 ]; then

seconds2text $DOWNSECS

else

DOWNSECS="0 SECONDS"

fi

# Check if the status is recovered
if [ $RECOVERED -eq 1 ]; then

        echo -e "STATUS: RECOVERED\nDATE: `date`\nSYSTEM TYPE:
PRODUCTION\nSYSTEM NAME: $BBHOSTNAME\nDURATION:
$DOWNSECS\n\n--\n\n$BBALPHAMSG\n\n" | /usr/bin/mail -s "PROD RECOVERED:
$BBHOSTSVC"
$RCPT


# Check if the status is still down
else
        echo -e "STATUS: DOWN\nDATE: `date`\nSYSTEM TYPE: PRODUCTION\nSYSTEM
NAME: $BBHOSTNAME\nALERT COLOR: $BBCOLORLEVEL\nDURATION:
$DOWNSECS\n\n--\n\n$BBALPHAMSG\n\n" | /usr/bin/mail -s "PROD DOWN:
$BBHOSTSVC"
$RCPT


fi


On 1/24/07, Geoff Hallford <user-dc9e7f30b1e2@xymon.invalid> wrote:

Thank you. Will do.

On 1/24/07, Henrik Stoerner <user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid> wrote:

On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 08:58:02AM -0500, Geoff Hallford wrote:

I was wondering if there is anyway to change the default email alert
contents to include the DESCR tag information for a host (without
creating a
custom alert script)? We have many support people who don't know what
all of
the hosts are for or if it goes down, what that means and I want to
make it
easier for them to know what is affected.

You'll either have to create a custom alert script, or tweak the
hobbitd/do_alert.c C code. If you choose the latter, then the
message_subject() and message_text() routines are the ones you're after;

you can get the DESCR tag with code like this:

    namelist_t *hinfo;
    char *descr;

    hinfo = hostinfo(alert->hostname);
    descr = bbh_item(hinfo, BBH_DESCRIPTION);

Note that this will return a NULL pointer if there is no DESCR tag for
this host.


Regards,
Henrik

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