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I am using server custom scripts that return HTML code to the hobbit to
display.  One of which is bbmrtg!  I upgraded Friday to the latest
snapshot because of another e-mail stating that it was patched in RC2.
I am still getting the following:

red Sun Feb 26 03:12:35 2006
&red<A
HREF="http://10.32.1.48/cgi-bin/routers2.cgi?rtr=master.cfg&bars=Cami&pa
ge=graph&xgtype=dwmy&xgstyle=l2&if=mrtg.10.32.3.229.mult1&xmtype=options
">Traffic Analysis for Multilink 1 Ranson to Orange:</A> In: 333800
bytes/sec (86.5%) Out: 10590 bytes/sec (2.7%) <CENTER><BR><A
HREF="http://10.32.1.48/cgi-bin/routers2.cgi?rtr=master.cfg&bars=Cami&pa
ge=graph&xgtype=dwmy&xgstyle=l2&if=mrtg.10.32.3.229.mult1&xmtype=options
"><IMG
SRC="http://10.32.1.48/cgi-bin/routers2.cgi?rtr=master.cfg&if=mrtg.10.32
.3.229.mult1&xgtype=d&page=image" ALT="Last 24 Hours"
BORDER=0></A><BR></CENTER> <TABLE BORDER=1 ALIGN=CENTER>  <TR>
  <TH COLSPAN=6><B>Rules</B></TH>
 </TR>
 <TR>
  <TD><FONT COLOR=#00eb0c><B>In</B></FONT></TD>
  <TD BGCOLOR=red><FONT COLOR=black><B>&lt; 0.0%</B></FONT></TD>
  <TD BGCOLOR=yellow><FONT COLOR=black><B>&lt; 0.0%</B></FONT></TD>
  <TD BGCOLOR=green><FONT COLOR=black><B>0.0% - 60.0%</B></FONT></TD>
  <TD BGCOLOR=yellow><FONT COLOR=black><B>&gt; 60.0%</B></FONT></TD>
  <TD BGCOLOR=red><FONT COLOR=black><B>&gt; 80.0%</B></FONT></TD>  </TR>
<TR>
  <TD><FONT COLOR=#1000ff><B>Out</B></FONT></TD>
  <TD BGCOLOR=red><FONT COLOR=black><B>&lt; 0.0%</B></FONT></TD>
  <TD BGCOLOR=yellow><FONT COLOR=black><B>&lt; 0.0%</B></FONT></TD>
  <TD BGCOLOR=green><FONT COLOR=black><B>0.0% - 60.0%</B></FONT></TD>
  <TD BGCOLOR=yellow><FONT COLOR=black><B>&gt; 60.0%</B></FONT></TD>
  <TD BGCOLOR=red><FONT COLOR=black><B>&gt; 80.0%</B></FONT></TD>  </TR>
</TABLE> <BR>

How can I get the Hobbit to send everything as HTML formatted e-mails
vice text?

Chris Blank
Network Engineer
AB&C Group
(XXX) XXX-XXXX x 2221

On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 08:58:57AM -0500, Chris Blank wrote:

[snip]

For the alert message, Hobbit just includes the text that was sent to it 
in the status message. So if you have a custom script like bbmrtg which
sends you an html formatted status, you'll get html in the alert.

If you prefer to get alerts as plain text, I'd suggest that you send
your alerts using an alert script - that will let you filter out any
html formatting codes you'd prefer to avoid.


Regards,
Henrik

I am using server custom scripts that return HTML code to the hobbit for
displaying.  One of which is bbmrtg!  I upgraded the latest snapshot

because of another e-mail stating that it was patched in RC2.  I am
still getting the following:

red Sun Feb 26 03:12:35 2006
&red<A
HREF="http://10.32.1.48/cgi-bin/routers2.cgi?rtr=master.cfg&bars=Cami&pa
ge=graph&xgtype=dwmy&xgstyle=l2&if=mrtg.10.32.3.229.mult1&xmtype=options
">Traffic Analysis for Multilink 1 Ranson to Orange:</A> In: 333800
bytes/sec (86.5%) Out: 10590 bytes/sec (2.7%) <CENTER><BR><A
HREF="http://10.32.1.48/cgi-bin/routers2.cgi?rtr=master.cfg&bars=Cami&pa
ge=graph&xgtype=dwmy&xgstyle=l2&if=mrtg.10.32.3.229.mult1&xmtype=options
"><IMG
SRC="http://10.32.1.48/cgi-bin/routers2.cgi?rtr=master.cfg&if=mrtg.10.32
.3.229.mult1&xgtype=d&page=image" ALT="Last 24 Hours"
BORDER=0></A><BR></CENTER> <TABLE BORDER=1 ALIGN=CENTER>  <TR>
  <TH COLSPAN=6><B>Rules</B></TH>
 </TR>
 <TR>
  <TD><FONT COLOR=#00eb0c><B>In</B></FONT></TD>
  <TD BGCOLOR=red><FONT COLOR=black><B>&lt; 0.0%</B></FONT></TD>
  <TD BGCOLOR=yellow><FONT COLOR=black><B>&lt; 0.0%</B></FONT></TD>
  <TD BGCOLOR=green><FONT COLOR=black><B>0.0% - 60.0%</B></FONT></TD>
  <TD BGCOLOR=yellow><FONT COLOR=black><B>&gt; 60.0%</B></FONT></TD>
  <TD BGCOLOR=red><FONT COLOR=black><B>&gt; 80.0%</B></FONT></TD>  </TR>
<TR>
  <TD><FONT COLOR=#1000ff><B>Out</B></FONT></TD>
  <TD BGCOLOR=red><FONT COLOR=black><B>&lt; 0.0%</B></FONT></TD>
  <TD BGCOLOR=yellow><FONT COLOR=black><B>&lt; 0.0%</B></FONT></TD>
  <TD BGCOLOR=green><FONT COLOR=black><B>0.0% - 60.0%</B></FONT></TD>
  <TD BGCOLOR=yellow><FONT COLOR=black><B>&gt; 60.0%</B></FONT></TD>
  <TD BGCOLOR=red><FONT COLOR=black><B>&gt; 80.0%</B></FONT></TD>  </TR>
</TABLE> <BR>

How can I get the Hobbit to send everything as HTML formatted e-mails
vice text?

Chris Blank
Network Engineer
AB&C Group
(XXX) XXX-XXXX x 2221

Hello,

I'm just writing to you to know if hobbit's clients could use one (and only one) port e.g 1984 like hobbitd ? I got several servers into DMZ and my network administrator asked me for the rules to apply in firewalls... He doesn't want to open port from DMZ to internal network (where my hobbit's server is). So, I hope a workaround exists for this because I think that clients connect to hobbit server. He would to prevent a rule like any -> 1984 or 1984 -> any...

Sincerly,

Thomas Seglard

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Chris,

I don't believe that Hobbit will send HTML alerts.  If you want to do this you will need to use a custom notification script for each test that provides HTML alerts.  I use the following script for mine...

############################################################
# The following is an HTML alert script.  Place it in your #
# ext directory as -email-notification.sh.                 #
############################################################

sendmail="/usr/sbin/sendmail"
bbserveraddress="http://<HOST NAME>"

echo $BBCOLORLEVEL
echo $RECOVERED

echo "$BBALPHAMSG" >$BBTMP/originalmessage.$$


lines=`wc -l $BBTMP/originalmessage.$$ | awk '{print $1}'`

rowtail=$(($lines -1))
rowhead=$(($lines -3))
tail -n $rowtail $BBTMP/originalmessage.$$ | head -n $rowhead > $BBTMP/temp.$$

#echo $lines

echo "To: $RCPT" >$BBTMP/notification.$$

case $RECOVERED in

        0)
                case $BBCOLORLEVEL in
                        red)
                                echo "Subject: Hobbit [${ACKCODE}] $BBHOSTNAME:$BBSVCNAME CRITICAL (RED)" >>$BBTMP/notification.$$
                        ;;
                        yellow)
                                echo "Subject: Hobbit [${ACKCODE}] $BBHOSTNAME:$BBSVCNAME warning (YELLOW)" >>$BBTMP/notification.$$
                        ;;
                        green)
                                echo"Subject: Hobbit [${ACKCODE}] $BBHOSTNAME:$BBSVCNAME okay (GREEN)" >>$BBTMP/notification.$$
                        ;;
                esac

                echo "Content-Type: text/html; charset=\"us-ascii\"
<BODY BGCOLOR=\"$BBCOLORLEVEL\" BACKGROUND=\"$bbserveraddress/hobbit/gifs/bkg-$BBCOLORLEVEL.gif\" TEXT=\"#FFFFCC\" LINK=\"#00FFAA\" VLINK=\"#FFFF44\">"  >>$BBTMP/notification.$$
        ;;

        1)
                echo "Subject: Hobbit $BBHOSTNAME:$BBSVCNAME recovered
Content-Type: text/html; charset=\"us-ascii\"
<BODY BGCOLOR=\"green\" BACKGROUND=\"$bbserveraddress/hobbit/gifs/bkg-green.gif\" TEXT=\"#FFFFCC\" LINK=\"#00FFAA\" VLINK=\"#FFFF44\">"  >>$BBTMP/notification.$$
        ;;
esac

cat $BBTMP/temp.$$ >>$BBTMP/notification.$$

echo "<center>
<p>Please see: <a href=\"$bbserveraddress/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?HOSTSVC=$BBHOSTSVCCOMMAS\">Service Details</a>
</p>
</center>" >>$BBTMP/notification.$$


$sendmail $RCPT <$BBTMP/notification.$$


rm -rf $BBTMP/*.$$

exit 1


Then put the following in your hobbit-alerts.cfg file
HOST=* SERVICE=mrtg RECOVERED COLOR=red
        SCRIPT /home/hobbit/server/ext/html-email-notification.sh <EMAIL ADDRESS>


Also, I typically put the HTML alert tests in the EXSERVICE value of my other alerts.  That way it doesn't send out the text alerts and only sends out the HTML ones.

I am no programmer so there may be better ways to accomplish what I did, but it works great and I am happy with it.


Robert Taylor | Senior Manager of Information Systems | Hendrick Automotive Group 
Mobile Phone (XXX) XXX-XXXX | NC Office (XXX) XXX-XXXX | NC Fax (XXX) XXX-XXXX

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Blank [mailto:user-c3bea850da25@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 8:39 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: [hobbit] HTML Code in Alerts

I am using server custom scripts that return HTML code to the hobbit for
displaying.  One of which is bbmrtg!  I upgraded the latest snapshot
because of another e-mail stating that it was patched in RC2.  I am
still getting the following:

red Sun Feb 26 03:12:35 2006
&red<A
HREF="http://10.32.1.48/cgi-bin/routers2.cgi?rtr=master.cfg&bars=Cami&pa
ge=graph&xgtype=dwmy&xgstyle=l2&if=mrtg.10.32.3.229.mult1&xmtype=options
">Traffic Analysis for Multilink 1 Ranson to Orange:</A> In: 333800
bytes/sec (86.5%) Out: 10590 bytes/sec (2.7%) <CENTER><BR><A
HREF="http://10.32.1.48/cgi-bin/routers2.cgi?rtr=master.cfg&bars=Cami&pa
ge=graph&xgtype=dwmy&xgstyle=l2&if=mrtg.10.32.3.229.mult1&xmtype=options
"><IMG
SRC="http://10.32.1.48/cgi-bin/routers2.cgi?rtr=master.cfg&if=mrtg.10.32
.3.229.mult1&xgtype=d&page=image" ALT="Last 24 Hours"
BORDER=0></A><BR></CENTER> <TABLE BORDER=1 ALIGN=CENTER>  <TR>
  <TH COLSPAN=6><B>Rules</B></TH>
 </TR>
 <TR>
  <TD><FONT COLOR=#00eb0c><B>In</B></FONT></TD>
  <TD BGCOLOR=red><FONT COLOR=black><B>&lt; 0.0%</B></FONT></TD>
  <TD BGCOLOR=yellow><FONT COLOR=black><B>&lt; 0.0%</B></FONT></TD>
  <TD BGCOLOR=green><FONT COLOR=black><B>0.0% - 60.0%</B></FONT></TD>
  <TD BGCOLOR=yellow><FONT COLOR=black><B>&gt; 60.0%</B></FONT></TD>
  <TD BGCOLOR=red><FONT COLOR=black><B>&gt; 80.0%</B></FONT></TD>  </TR>
<TR>
  <TD><FONT COLOR=#1000ff><B>Out</B></FONT></TD>
  <TD BGCOLOR=red><FONT COLOR=black><B>&lt; 0.0%</B></FONT></TD>
  <TD BGCOLOR=yellow><FONT COLOR=black><B>&lt; 0.0%</B></FONT></TD>
  <TD BGCOLOR=green><FONT COLOR=black><B>0.0% - 60.0%</B></FONT></TD>
  <TD BGCOLOR=yellow><FONT COLOR=black><B>&gt; 60.0%</B></FONT></TD>
  <TD BGCOLOR=red><FONT COLOR=black><B>&gt; 80.0%</B></FONT></TD>  </TR>
</TABLE> <BR>

How can I get the Hobbit to send everything as HTML formatted e-mails
vice text?

Chris Blank
Network Engineer
AB&C Group
(XXX) XXX-XXXX x 2221

I'll take a stab at this...
You have some clients in the DMZ, and the hobbit server is on the internal network, yes?

The DMZ must be on a specific subnet(s), so why couldn't the firewall be set to forward 1984 to your server from that subnet only?   Instead of client -> server of
<anything> -> 1984 -> hobbit server, then if frex your DMZ is 10.0.0.0/8, something like
10.0.0.0/8 -> 1984 -> hobbit server.

HTH, unless i've badly misunderstood the issue.

user-bb3e9041f07f@xymon.invalid wrote:

-- 

Rob Munsch
Solutions For Progress IT

I believe you can also send hobbit server via http(port 80). Found this
snippet under 'man bb':

 Send the same status message, but using  HTTP  protocol  via  the  web-
  servers' bbmessage.cgi script:
  $      $BB      http://bb.foo.com/cgi-bin/bbmessage.cgi      "status
       www,foo,com.http green `date` Web OK"


This helps if your firewall/DMZ already allows port 80 traffic.