Hi Henrik,
Since the DESCR tab doesn't get sent automatically (that I know of) to a custom alert script, what is the easiest way to accomplish obtaining it. The script is written in Bourne Shell (standard /bin/sh). This is what my current script looks like (very simple for now):
#!/bin/sh
Start Section for Time Formatting
#----------------------------------------------------- mkstring () { TIME_VALUE=$1 UNIT=$2 if [ $TIME_VALUE -eq 0 ]; then OUT="" elif [ $TIME_VALUE -eq 1 ]; then OUT="1 $UNIT, " else OUT="$TIME_VALUE ${UNIT}S, " fi echo "$OUT" }
seconds2text () {
Convert seconds to week/day/hour/minute
TEMP0=expr $1 / 60
SECOND=expr $1 - $TEMP0 \* 60
TEMP1=expr $TEMP0 / 60
MINUTE=expr $TEMP0 - $TEMP1 \* 60
TEMP2=expr $TEMP1 / 24
HOUR=expr $TEMP1 - $TEMP2 \* 24
TEMP3=expr $TEMP2 / 7
DAY=expr $TEMP2 - $TEMP3 \* 7
WEEK=$TEMP3
Build the output string
STRING="mkstring $WEEK WEEK"
STRING="$STRINGmkstring $DAY DAY"
STRING="$STRINGmkstring $HOUR HOUR"
STRING="$STRINGmkstring $MINUTE MIN"
STRING="$STRINGmkstring $SECOND SEC"
Remove the trailing comma
DOWNSECS=echo $STRING | sed 's/,$//'
}
If the seconds don't equal zero (ie event just started) then format the
duration if [ $DOWNSECS -ne 0 ]; then
seconds2text $DOWNSECS
else
DOWNSECS="0 SECONDS"
fi
Check if the status is recovered
if [ $RECOVERED -eq 1 ]; then
echo -e "STATUS: RECOVERED\nDATE: `date`\nSYSTEM TYPE:PRODUCTION\nSYSTEM NAME: $BBHOSTNAME\nDURATION: $DOWNSECS\n\n--\n\n$BBALPHAMSG\n\n" | /usr/bin/mail -s "PROD RECOVERED: $BBHOSTSVC" $RCPT
Check if the status is still down
else
echo -e "STATUS: DOWN\nDATE: date\nSYSTEM TYPE: PRODUCTION\nSYSTEM
NAME: $BBHOSTNAME\nALERT COLOR: $BBCOLORLEVEL\nDURATION:
$DOWNSECS\n\n--\n\n$BBALPHAMSG\n\n" | /usr/bin/mail -s "PROD DOWN:
$BBHOSTSVC"
$RCPT
fi
On 1/24/07, Geoff Hallford <geoff.hallford at gmail.com> wrote:
Thank you. Will do.
On 1/24/07, Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:
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
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