Hi
I'm running Xymon v4.3.3. I'm using an alert script to create log entries
for a corporate alarming system to monitor.
When a test fails in a red status, my script gets:
RECOVERED=0, BBCOLORLEVEL=red and BBALPHAMSG="red bla bla bla"
When the test goes green again, it gets:
RECOVERED=1, BBCOLORLEVEL=red and BBALPHAMSG="green bla bla bla"
The BBCOLORLEVEL is "red" in both messages even though for the second the
state had returned to green. The "alerts" doco/manpage says that
BBCOLORLEVEL is "the current color of the status". But it seems to show the
color of the status when it first entered the failure status. Is this a
bug, or is the doco wrong, or am I mis-reading the doco?
A related question: Some tests include a URL in the BBALPHAMSG text (saying
"See http://.../";) but other tests don't. I can't work out which tests do
and which don't. Is there a pattern to this that I'm not seeing? Can the
URL be enabled for all alert messages? In all cases, the SCRIPT definition
sets "FORMAT=TEXT", which should be including the URL. Here's an example:
HOST=%^lxdns01[01]\d\. SERVICE=ntp DURATION>30 RECOVERED
SCRIPT /usr/local/utils/xymon-scripts/xymon-logger "" FORMAT=TEXT
REPEAT=1d
Cheers
Jeremy