Eeeeewwww.... Dropping support for the BB "page" protocol for messages
will break a lot of things that I make use of for administrative events
alerts that aren't associated with a particular host or status.
Is there any way that this can be worked around??
At the very least, be able to configure blue status events to send
emails to a defined address (rather than one of the pager addresses for
red or yellow)?
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Brent B McCrackin
UNIX Systems Specialist - Bell Sympatico
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-----Original Message-----
From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid]
Sent: February 25, 2005 8:24 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] maint.pl with no email
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 07:49:46AM -0500, Asif Iqbal wrote:
In bigbrother the following code of maint.pl were able to send a page.
"&bbsend("now","$bbpager","page notify-admin.maint enable\n\nThe f
ollowing at jobs that were scheduled to disable tests have been
CANCELLED\nDate: " . &POSIX_time(
$nowtime) . "\n$cancelledby$notification");"
But in Hobbit I tried with the same code and it did not send any
page.
That is because Hobbit doesn't support the BB "page" protocol. If
you send hobbitd such a request, it is silently dropped. I've updated
the bb man-page to reflect this.
Alerts in Hobbit happen as a result of a "status" message. The magic
"notify-admin" hostname does not exist in Hobbit.
I have HOST=notify-admin SERVICE=maint
MAIL my.email at here
And when I did the ./bin/bbcmd hobbitd_alert --test notify-admin
maint,
it matches the rule fine.
If you had a host called "notify-admin" with a "maint" status column,
then this rule would control alerts for that status.
Henrik