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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

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?

-- Bruce Z. Lysik <blysik at shutterfly.com> Operations Engineer