Gnokii and Hobbit 🔗 link

On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 10:08:10PM +0200, Michael Magua wrote:

I have a premicell and a serial cable going from the server to the
premicell. I compiled gnokii and from the command line I can do:

echo "some msg" | gnokii --sendsms <cell number>

And that works. However following the examples from the Hobbit website
on sms notifications does not work.

On 8/19/06, Henrik Stoerner <user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid> wrote:

On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 10:08:10PM +0200, Michael Magua wrote:

I have a premicell and a serial cable going from the server to the
premicell. I compiled gnokii and from the command line I can do:

echo "some msg" | gnokii --sendsms <cell number>

And that works. However following the examples from the Hobbit website
on sms notifications does not work.

"Does not work" is a rather generic error description. What exactly
is that that you cannot get to work? Your alerting rules, the
alert script you're - presumably - using to interface with Gnokii,
or ... ?

Perhaps if you'd show us what's in your hobbit-alerts.cfg file,
and how you're trying to invoke gnokii via an alerting script ?
It would make troubleshooting a lot easier.


Regards,
Henrik

On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 07:34:58AM +0200, Michael Magua wrote:

In hobbit-alerts.cfg I have:

HOST=mail
    MAIL user-d7ae79a03f32@xymon.invalid REPEAT=20 SERVICE=smtp
#SCRIPT /usr/local/bin/smsalert FORMAT=SMS
#SCRIPT echo "$BBALPHAMSG" | gnokii --sendsms <cell number> FORMAT=SMS

Both of those script calls are commented out as I was trying various
things. Here is my /usr/local/bin/smsalert:

#!/bin/sh
echo "$BBALPHAMSG" | gnokii --sendsms <cell number>

On 8/20/06, Henrik Stoerner <user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid> wrote:

On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 07:34:58AM +0200, Michael Magua wrote:

In hobbit-alerts.cfg I have:

HOST=mail
    MAIL user-d7ae79a03f32@xymon.invalid REPEAT=20 SERVICE=smtp
#SCRIPT /usr/local/bin/smsalert FORMAT=SMS
#SCRIPT echo "$BBALPHAMSG" | gnokii --sendsms <cell number> FORMAT=SMS

Both of those script calls are commented out as I was trying various
things. Here is my /usr/local/bin/smsalert:

#!/bin/sh
echo "$BBALPHAMSG" | gnokii --sendsms <cell number>

Your SCRIPT command is partially wrong; the "recipient" parameter is
missing. This is typically the phone-number for the SMS recipient.
If you don't want to use it, just put some dummy value there. This
parameter is passed to the script as $RCPT.

I tested it myself, and found two possible problems:

1) Make sure the "hobbit" user can access the serial port. In my
   setup, the user must be in the "dialout" group to access the
   /dev/ttyS0 file (the serial port device); check the file
   permissions on your serial device.

2) gnokii complains if the message test is more than 160 characters.
   Change your script command to
      echo "${BBALPHAMSG:0:160}" | gnokii --sendsms "$RCPT"

If you still have problems, the ~hobbit/server/logs/page.log has the
output from the script commands, so you should check that for
errors.


Regards,
Henrik

On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 09:36:35PM +0200, Michael Magua wrote:

I have no clue why this still isn't working!

Now in hobbit-alerts.cfg I have:

SCRIPT /usr/local/bin/smsalert FORMAT=SMS

Where 012345678 is my cellnumber. Permissions are fine because user
hobbit can send an sms via the command line by doing `echo "hello" |
gnokii --sendsms 012345678`. I then get an sms.

On 8/20/06, Henrik Stoerner <user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid> wrote:

On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 09:36:35PM +0200, Michael Magua wrote:

I have no clue why this still isn't working!

Now in hobbit-alerts.cfg I have:

SCRIPT /usr/local/bin/smsalert FORMAT=SMS

You're still missing a recipient.

SCRIPT /usr/local/bin/smsalert 012345678 FORMAT=SMS

Where 012345678 is my cellnumber. Permissions are fine because user
hobbit can send an sms via the command line by doing `echo "hello" |
gnokii --sendsms 012345678`. I then get an sms.

What's in the page.log file ?


Regards,
Henrik

On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 10:29:05PM +0200, Michael Magua wrote:

Yum recipient is missing as I have it in /usr/local/bin/smsalert:

On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 10:37:06PM +0200, Henrik Stoerner wrote:

I couldn't find logs. I don't have the page.log as you suggested.

Yes you do. In the ~hobbit/server/logs/ directory, or /var/lib/hobbit
if you use the pre-built packages.

On 8/20/06, Henrik Stoerner <user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid> wrote:

On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 10:37:06PM +0200, Henrik Stoerner wrote:

I couldn't find logs. I don't have the page.log as you suggested.

Yes you do. In the ~hobbit/server/logs/ directory, or /var/lib/hobbit
if you use the pre-built packages.

Sorry, that last one should be /var/log/hobbit, of course.


Henrik

On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 08:07:38AM +0200, Michael Magua wrote:

On 8/20/06, Henrik Stoerner <user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid> wrote:

On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 10:37:06PM +0200, Henrik Stoerner wrote:

I couldn't find logs. I don't have the page.log as you suggested.

Yes you do. In the ~hobbit/server/logs/ directory, or /var/lib/hobbit
if you use the pre-built packages.

Sorry, that last one should be /var/log/hobbit, of course.

I have alot of these:

2006-08-21 07:40:48 Tried to down BOARDBUSY: Invalid argument

On 8/21/06, Henrik Stoerner <user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid> wrote:

On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 08:07:38AM +0200, Michael Magua wrote:

On 8/20/06, Henrik Stoerner <user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid> wrote:

On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 10:37:06PM +0200, Henrik Stoerner wrote:

I couldn't find logs. I don't have the page.log as you suggested.

Yes you do. In the ~hobbit/server/logs/ directory, or /var/lib/hobbit
if you use the pre-built packages.

Sorry, that last one should be /var/log/hobbit, of course.

I have alot of these:

2006-08-21 07:40:48 Tried to down BOARDBUSY: Invalid argument

Harmless, they often show up when Hobbit is shut down or restarted.
No "Gnokii" entries ? In that case your alert setup doesn't trigger
any alerts. What's in the "notifications.log" file - same directory?


Regards,
Henrik