Hi All,
Does anyone know of a way to allow my custom email alerts to be used with hobbit-mailack? Currently, the only way to get Xymon 4.3.0-0 beta 2 to acknowledge an alert via email reply is for the subject line to start with "Hobbit [$ACKCODE]". My alerts start off with either "ALERT:" or "RECOVERED:" and not matter where I put the $ACKCODE, it only works if you do it as "Hobbit [$ACKCODE]".
I think there should be something in the hobbitserver.cfg to allow people to change this, as we are supposed to be able to customize our alerting and this breaks mailack.
Any thoughts?
Thanks.
P.S. I can't develop in C.
Geoff.
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Geoff Hallford <geoff.hallford at gmail.com> wrote:
Hi All,
Does anyone know of a way to allow my custom email alerts to be used with hobbit-mailack? Currently, the only way to get Xymon 4.3.0-0 beta 2 to acknowledge an alert via email reply is for the subject line to start with "Hobbit [$ACKCODE]". My alerts start off with either "ALERT:" or "RECOVERED:" and not matter where I put the $ACKCODE, it only works if you do it as "Hobbit [$ACKCODE]".
You just have to modify few lines starting here, excerpted from hobbitd/hobbit-mailack.c
98 /* Get the alert cookie */ 99 subjexp = pcre_compile(".*(Hobbit|BB)[ -]* \\[*(-*[0-9]+)[\\]!]*", PCRE_CASELESS, &errmsg, &errofs, NULL); 100 if (subjexp == NULL) { 101 dbgprintf("pcre compile failed - 1\n"); 102 return 2; 103 }
So it is really pcre match. Then make clean; make and then save your old hobbit-mailack and replace it your new hobbit-mailack
I think there should be something in the hobbitserver.cfg to allow people to change this, as we are supposed to be able to customize our alerting and this breaks mailack.
Any thoughts?
Thanks.
P.S. I can't develop in C.
Geoff.
-- Asif Iqbal PGP Key: 0xE62693C5 KeyServer: pgp.mit.edu A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
Thank you very much. I don't want to really mess with the code itself. I fixed it by filtering it through sed in my procmailrc file. For anyone else that is interested, here is the scenario:
My alert subject: "ALERT: [$ACKCODE] $BBHOSTNAME - $SERVICE" Hobbit expects: "Hobbit [$ACKCODE] ......"
The contents of my ~/.procmailrc file to make hobbit-mailack accept the acknowledgement (until the code is changed):
DEFAULT=$HOME/Mailbox LOGFILE=$HOME/procmail.log :0 | sed -e s/"ALERT: "/"Hobbit "/ | $HOME/server/bin/hobbit-mailack --env=$HOME/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Asif Iqbal <vadud3 at gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Geoff Hallford <geoff.hallford at gmail.com> wrote:
Hi All,
Does anyone know of a way to allow my custom email alerts to be used with hobbit-mailack? Currently, the only way to get Xymon 4.3.0-0 beta 2 to acknowledge an alert via email reply is for the subject line to start with "Hobbit [$ACKCODE]". My alerts start off with either "ALERT:" or "RECOVERED:" and not matter where I put the $ACKCODE, it only works if you do it as "Hobbit [$ACKCODE]".
You just have to modify few lines starting here, excerpted from hobbitd/hobbit-mailack.c
98 /* Get the alert cookie */ 99 subjexp = pcre_compile(".*(Hobbit|BB)[ -]* \\[*(-*[0-9]+)[\\]!]*", PCRE_CASELESS, &errmsg, &errofs, NULL); 100 if (subjexp == NULL) { 101 dbgprintf("pcre compile failed - 1\n"); 102 return 2; 103 }
So it is really pcre match. Then make clean; make and then save your old hobbit-mailack and replace it your new hobbit-mailack
I think there should be something in the hobbitserver.cfg to allow people
to
change this, as we are supposed to be able to customize our alerting and this breaks mailack.
Any thoughts?
Thanks.
P.S. I can't develop in C.
Geoff.
-- Asif Iqbal PGP Key: 0xE62693C5 KeyServer: pgp.mit.edu A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
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