alert.chk 🔗 link

Torsten Richter wrote:

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Hi there,

I just migrated a script I've written some time ago for Big Brother to
XYmon for creating a special page for our operators.
Thus I'm using the file alert.chk for evaluating the data that will be
displayed on this page.
Today I saw that there was a red icon for a test and when I clicked on
it the page for the test itself was yellow for over 2 hours.
When I grepped for the machine and test in alert.chk I saw that the
color there was set to red. I doublechecked with hobbitd.chk and there
the color was yellow.
I'm talking about the fifth column in alert.chk and the sixth in
hobbitd.chk.
Maybe I should not use alert.chk for getting the data but use
hobbitd.chk instead?
But I was wondering why there are differences between these two files.
Perhaps someone can turn me in the right direction so that I can see the
light :-)

Cheers
Torsten
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Download my public key from:
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Torsten Richter wrote:

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Hi there,

I just migrated a script I've written some time ago for Big Brother to
XYmon for creating a special page for our operators.
Thus I'm using the file alert.chk for evaluating the data that will be
displayed on this page.
Today I saw that there was a red icon for a test and when I clicked on
it the page for the test itself was yellow for over 2 hours.
When I grepped for the machine and test in alert.chk I saw that the
color there was set to red. I doublechecked with hobbitd.chk and there
the color was yellow.
I'm talking about the fifth column in alert.chk and the sixth in
hobbitd.chk.
Maybe I should not use alert.chk for getting the data but use
hobbitd.chk instead?
But I was wondering why there are differences between these two files.
Perhaps someone can turn me in the right direction so that I can see the
light :-)

Cheers
Torsten
- --
+---------------------------------------------------------+
| Richter IT-Consulting					  |
| E-mail  : user-c862b499d9fa@xymon.invalid			  |
|							  |
| Homepage: http://www.richter-it.net/			  |
+---------------------------------------------------------+
Download my public key from:
http://www.keyserver.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x899093AC
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Better to use "bb" command to query Xymon internal statuses.

example:

$ ./bb 127.0.0.1 "hobbitdboard host=admiral test=ldap"
admiral|ldap|green||1239861135|1242279011|1242280811|0|0|12.34.56.78|-1|green 
Thu May 14 07:29:59 2009

Check bb(1) man page for more info.

Dominique