[hobbit] DESCR Info in Alerts

On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 08:58:02AM -0500, Geoff Hallford wrote:

I was wondering if there is anyway to change the default email alert contents to include the DESCR tag information for a host (without creating a custom alert script)? We have many support people who don't know what all of the hosts are for or if it goes down, what that means and I want to make it easier for them to know what is affected.

You'll either have to create a custom alert script, or tweak the hobbitd/do_alert.c C code. If you choose the latter, then the message_subject() and message_text() routines are the ones you're after; you can get the DESCR tag with code like this:

namelist_t *hinfo;
char *descr;

hinfo = hostinfo(alert->hostname);
descr = bbh_item(hinfo, BBH_DESCRIPTION);

Note that this will return a NULL pointer if there is no DESCR tag for this host.

Regards, Henrik