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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Thank you very much. Maybe this should be added to the hobbit-alerts.cfgexplanation for pre-defined environement variables.

On 3/1/07, Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:

On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 08:51:35AM -0500, Geoff Hallford wrote:

...

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.

It does, it's in the "$BBH_DESCRIPTION" environment variable.

Regards, Henrik

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I managed to get it working, but it took a fair bit of hacking. I'll take a look at what I did and post it (IIRC, the original script couldn't have worked as coded).

Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc

-----Original Message----- From: Camp, Neil D. (ManTech) CTR [mailto:neil.camp.ctr at deca.mil] Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 1:53 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] BB-SAR LARRD

Hello,

I have found this post on trying to get BB-SAR and LARRD working with Hobbit. http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2005/11/msg00345.html

I have not had much luck and I was wondering if anyone else has been able to get it to work. I am keen on getting SAR reports to be gathered and graphs generated using RRD. Any and all suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I currently have the bb-sar gather sar data, but no RRDs or graphs are to be had. Thanks again!

--neil

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Were you able to find the changes that you made?

-----Original Message----- From: Kauffman, Tom [mailto:KauffmanT at nibco.com] Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 4:30 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] BB-SAR LARRD

I managed to get it working, but it took a fair bit of hacking. I'll take a look at what I did and post it (IIRC, the original script couldn't have worked as coded).

Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc

-----Original Message----- From: Camp, Neil D. (ManTech) CTR [mailto:neil.camp.ctr at deca.mil] Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 1:53 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] BB-SAR LARRD

Hello,

I have found this post on trying to get BB-SAR and LARRD working with Hobbit. http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2005/11/msg00345.html

I have not had much luck and I was wondering if anyone else has been able to get it to work. I am keen on getting SAR reports to be gathered and graphs generated using RRD. Any and all suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I currently have the bb-sar gather sar data, but no RRDs or graphs are to be had. Thanks again!

--neil

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