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All,

Is there a way to write a script in such a way that it only reports in
once a day (I know how to do this part), and then tell hobbit not to
turn that test purple for 24 hours after it receives that last status?

TIA

Al

"Jeffcoat, Al" wrote on 09/11/2005 02:23:28 p.m.:

Check the man page for bb.

First option listed under "Hobbit Message Syntax" is status... check out
+LIFETIME !

TIA

Al

You're welcome,
Andy.


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Jeffcoat, Al wrote:

Al,

Sure, just append the number of seconds to your status message (in the format of "+seconds" see example below). Hobbit will then not turn purple unless that time expires and no further status messages have been received.

$BB $BBDISP "status+86400 $MACHINE.$COLUMN $COLOR `date` &green This is a green message that won't expire for 24 hours."

-Charles

On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 07:07:57PM -0700, Charles Jones wrote:

And it's usually a good idea to add a bit of extra time to give the
script time to run the next time - say, half an hour extra.


Regards,
Henrik

Thanks very much for the reply (and Andy and Henrik also)...

However, the default time is in minutes, not seconds.  I was trying to
figure out why status+87600 wasn't turning purple after 24.5 hours :)

From the man page (thanks again Andy).  "The LIFETIME is in minutes,
unless you add an "h" (hours), "d" (days) or "w" (weeks) immediately
after the number, e.g. "status+5h" for a status that is valid for 5
hours."

Thanks,

Al 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Jones [mailto:user-e86b4aeade4e@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 9:08 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Script Delay

Jeffcoat, Al wrote:

Al,

Sure, just append the number of seconds to your status message (in the 
format of "+seconds" see example below). Hobbit will then not turn 
purple unless that time expires and no further status messages have been

received.

$BB $BBDISP "status+86400 $MACHINE.$COLUMN $COLOR `date` &green This is
a green message that won't expire for 24 hours."

-Charles