Eeeeewwww.... Dropping support for the BB "page" protocol for messages will break a lot of things that I make use of for administrative events alerts that aren't associated with a particular host or status.

Is there any way that this can be worked around??

At the very least, be able to configure blue status events to send emails to a defined address (rather than one of the pager addresses for red or yellow)?

Brent B McCrackin UNIX Systems Specialist - Bell Sympatico Brent.McCrackin at Bell.ca PH: 416-353-0692 "Serenity through viciousness."

-----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: February 25, 2005 8:24 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] maint.pl with no email

On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 07:49:46AM -0500, Asif Iqbal wrote:

In bigbrother the following code of maint.pl were able to send a page.

"&bbsend("now","$bbpager","page notify-admin.maint enable\n\nThe f ollowing at jobs that were scheduled to disable tests have been CANCELLED\nDate: " . &POSIX_time( $nowtime) . "\n$cancelledby$notification");"

But in Hobbit I tried with the same code and it did not send any page.

That is because Hobbit doesn't support the BB "page" protocol. If you send hobbitd such a request, it is silently dropped. I've updated the bb man-page to reflect this.

Alerts in Hobbit happen as a result of a "status" message. The magic "notify-admin" hostname does not exist in Hobbit.

I have HOST=notify-admin SERVICE=maint MAIL my.email at here

And when I did the ./bin/bbcmd hobbitd_alert --test notify-admin maint, it matches the rule fine.

If you had a host called "notify-admin" with a "maint" status column, then this rule would control alerts for that status.

Henrik

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