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Hi,

I'm not sure if this is possible, but may be a good feature to add:

I'd like to be able to define a macro which replaces several recipient lines.  So for example, if many host groups always have a set of four SCRIPT recipients, it would be nice to be able to just define $STANDARDSCRIPTS at the top, and use that macro later.

It seems possible to define a macro for a single recipient line, but not multiple.

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Bruce Z. Lysik  <user-4e63a10f8934@xymon.invalid>
Operations Engineer

In <user-9658aec83bba@xymon.invalid> "Bruce Lysik" <user-4e63a10f8934@xymon.invalid> writes:

Why not simply have one script that calls the other four ?

Correct.


Henrik

Well, it's probably easier if I show you:

#       SCRIPT /opt/bb/server/ext/email onduty SERVICE=procs RECOVERED
#       SCRIPT /opt/bb/server/ext/email ops    SERVICE=procs RECOVERED
#       SCRIPT /opt/bb/server/ext/email onduty SERVICE=http,ping DURATION>6 RECOVERED
#       SCRIPT /opt/bb/server/ext/email ops    SERVICE=http,ping DURATION>6 RECOVERED
#       SCRIPT /opt/bb/server/ext/email ops    EXSERVICE=procs,http,ping RECOVERED

This set of recipient lines shows up often in my hobbit-alerts.cfg.  I could trim it a bit if I modified the 'email' script to accept multiple addresses (5 lines to 3).

A related question: If I don't define COLOR anywhere in the rule, it should by default alert on 'red', correct?

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Bruce Z. Lysik  <user-4e63a10f8934@xymon.invalid>
Operations Engineer

On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 01:06:00PM -0800, Bruce Lysik wrote:

OK, I see. You can't define multi-line macros, but as your example
shows it would be useful. I'll see what I can do.

To be exact, it will alert on the colors defined with the
"--alert-colors" option, but the default for that is to alert on red,
yellow and purple.


Henrik

Aha.  That's useful.  Is that a switch to hobbitd that I can add in hobbitlaunch.cfg?  (I want to set it to just red and purple.)  And if I do make that change, can I override it on a per alert basis with the COLOR option?

Thanks!

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Bruce Z. Lysik  <user-4e63a10f8934@xymon.invalid>
Operations Engineer

On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 10:19:27AM -0800, Bruce Lysik wrote:

This option exists for both hobbitd and hobbitd_alert, and yes - you
do set it in the hobbitlaunch.cfg file.

For hobbitd, it defines what colors of a status are sent off to the
hobbitd_alert module, which handles alerts. hobbitd has both a
--alertcolors option to define which colors indicate a critical
state, and a --okcolors option to define which are OK. 

(A color can be neither an alert- nor an ok-color - e.g. you can have
"red" as an alert-color, and "green" as OK, but "yellow" as neither of
these, meaning that alerts will start to go out when a status goes
red, but the recovery-message will only appear when it goes green -
not if it only goes yellow).

So for hobbitd, you must specify the --alertcolors option to include
any color that you want to get alerts for. You cannot override it on
a per-alert basis, because the alert module will never see e.g. a
message with color "yellow", if you run hobbitd with
"--alertcolors=red,purple".


For hobbitd_alert, the --alertcolors option is only used to determine
if an incoming message is for an alert or a recovery message. So the
--alertcolors option for hobbitd and hobbitd_alert must match.


Henrik