Here's what I use for short, concise alerts:

#!/bin/perl

RCS $Id: brief_alert,v 1.2 2007/06/09 18:09:39 hobbit Exp $

use strict; my $Subject = "Hobbit Alert! \u$ENV{BBCOLORLEVEL} light : $ENV{BBSVCNAME} : $ENV{BBHOSTNAME}"; my $Body = "Hobbit Monitoring Alert!\n\nA \u$ENV{BBCOLORLEVEL} light condition has been detected for SERVICE=$ENV{BBSVCNAME} on HOST=$ENV{BBHOSTNAME}"; SendMail($Subject, $Body); sub SendMail { my($Subject, $Body) = @_; open( MAIL, '| /usr/lib/sendmail -F "Hobbit" -t'); print MAIL "To: $ENV{RCPT}\n"; print MAIL "Subject: $Subject\n\n" if defined $Subject; print MAIL "$Body\n" if defined $Body; close(MAIL); }

Called like this (example) from hobbit-alerts.cfg:

$BRIEF_ALERT=/development/hobbit/server/ext/brief_alert HOST=servername SERVICE=http COLOR=red SCRIPT $BRIEF_ALERT recipient at mycompany.com DURATION>10m REPEAT=1d

From: Joshua Krause [mailto:forums at triadbiz.rr.com] Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 5:32 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] custom paging script

Has anyone come up with a custom paging script that will only page out certain information?