[xymon] variables in hobbit-alerts.cfg

Rob,

So I have a fancy new mail filter script that allows me to send mail to admins+servername at mail.blah.com in order to reach the people responsible for servername.

I'd like to use this in hobbit-alerts, but I can't seem to find a way. It seems I can match on hostname (HOST=xyz) to decide where alerts should go, and I can get the hostname (BBHOSTNAME) inside of a custom SCRIPT, but I can't use it in the hobbit-alerts directly.

For instance, this

MAIL admins+$BBHOSTNAME at mail.blah.com

tries to sent the message to admins+$BBHOSTNAME at mail.blah.com.

Yes, I can do an external script, but I'd really rather not recreate the messages Xymon is sending out anyway just to change the recipient. Is there a variable that represents the hostname in the alerts file?

Not a lot of work to do an external script. The message is either in an ENV variable when you call the script, so no need to recreate the message. Hostname is in a variable and can be substituted to your heart's content. http://xymon.sourceforge.net/docs/hobbit-alerts.html

If you want to do HTML e-mails then a script is required (see xymonton). http://xymonton.trantor.org/doku.php/alerts

David.

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