On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 01:06:00PM -0800, Bruce Lysik wrote:
>
> > >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.
> >
> > Why not simply have one script that calls the other four ?
>
> 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
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.
> A related question: If I don't define COLOR anywhere in the rule, it
> should by default alert on 'red', correct?
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