TS - blackberry small web page for ACK
I have an urgent requirement to be able to create a small web page for display on the blackberry.
OK SOLUTION (if I can get it to work):
I tried to use bb-ack.cgi but the documentation is not straight forward.
I see that it has "Ack" as a hidden value for ACTION.
FORM METHOD=GET and ACTION="&SCRIPT_NAME"
What does script name get set to on a correct run?
BETTER SOLUTION:
I can create a simple small web page and pass the link to the blackberry to the person on-call.
But I need to have a command line equivalent to the bb-ack.cgi to ACK the outage and supply the following variables.
Same items on the bb-ack.cgi man page:
bb-ack.cgiACTION=action
NUMBER=acknum
DELAY=validity
MESSAGE=text
I have not found the correct command.I can DISABLE/ENABLE the device easily from 'bb' but I need to make an easy way to acknowledge
the event from a smart phone (blackberry).
Thanks,
Tom Schmitt
Senior IT Staff - R&D
Salt Lake City, UT 84116
Phone (801) 594-3030
Cell (801) 231-7230
eFax (413) 480-6873
D.Tom.Schmitt at L-3Com.com
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I still need some guidance on this one!
Is there a way to (from the command line) ACK a device?
I can use the 'bb' command to DISABLE/ENABLE a device from the command line but not ACK, that I know of.
I would like to ACK an event as someone responds to a call out.
I am not able to setup the Xymon server to receive email so that is not an option.
But using Asterisk (PiaF), I can create an out bound voice call and prompt the person for the OK to ACK.
Then the Asterisk machine would run the command line program to ACK the device.
Thanks,
Tom Schmitt
Senior IT Staff - R&D
Salt Lake City, UT 84116
Phone (801) 594-3030
Cell (801) 231-7230
eFax (413) 480-6873
D.Tom.Schmitt at L-3Com.com
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From: Schmitt, D Tom @ CSW-SLC Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 11:28 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: TS - blackberry small web page for ACK
I have an urgent requirement to be able to create a small web page for display on the blackberry.
OK SOLUTION (if I can get it to work):
I tried to use bb-ack.cgi but the documentation is not straight forward.
I see that it has "Ack" as a hidden value for ACTION.
FORM METHOD=GET and ACTION="&SCRIPT_NAME"
Where does script_name get set to on a correct run?
BETTER SOLUTION:
I can create a simple small web page and pass the link to the blackberry to the person on-call.
But I need to have a command line equivalent to the bb-ack.cgi to ACK the outage and supply the following variables.
Same items on the bb-ack.cgi man page:
bb-ack.cgiACTION=action
NUMBER=acknum
DELAY=validity
MESSAGE=text
I have not found the correct command.I can DISABLE/ENABLE the device easily from 'bb' but I need to make an easy way to acknowledge
the event from a smart phone (blackberry).
Thanks,
Tom Schmitt
Senior IT Staff - R&D
Salt Lake City, UT 84116
Phone (801) 594-3030
Cell (801) 231-7230
eFax (413) 480-6873
D.Tom.Schmitt at L-3Com.com
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The bb-ack.cgi program expects to be run by a web server with things passed to it using environment variables. A quick read of the source suggests something like this would get you your command-line:
REQUEST_METHOD=GET QUERY_STRING="ACTION=Ack&NUMBER=1&DELAY=500&MESSAGE=Test+Message" export REQUEST_METHOD QUERY_STRING /home/xymon/server/bin/bb-ack.cgi --no-pin
The value of MESSAGE would need to be url-encoded.
Ralph Mitchell
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:08 PM, <d.tom.schmitt at l-3com.com> wrote:
I still need some guidance on this one!
Is there a way to (from the command line) ACK a device?
I can use the ‘bb’ command to DISABLE/ENABLE a device from the command line but not ACK, that I know of.
I would like to ACK an event as someone responds to a call out.
I am not able to setup the Xymon server to receive email so that is not an option.
But using Asterisk (PiaF), I can create an out bound voice call and prompt the person for the OK to ACK.
Then the Asterisk machine would run the command line program to ACK the device.
*Thanks,*
*Tom Schmitt*
*Senior IT Staff - R&D*
Salt Lake City, UT 84116
Phone (801) *594-3030*
Cell (801) 231-7230
eFax (413) *480-6873*
*D.Tom.Schmitt at L-3Com.com*
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*From:* Schmitt, D Tom @ CSW-SLC *Sent:* Wednesday, February 03, 2010 11:28 AM *To:* hobbit at hswn.dk *Subject:* TS - blackberry small web page for ACK
I have an urgent requirement to be able to create a small web page for display on the blackberry.
OK SOLUTION (if I can get it to work):
I tried to use bb-ack.cgi but the documentation is not straight forward.
I see that it has “Ack” as a hidden value for ACTION.
FORM METHOD=GET and ACTION=”&SCRIPT_NAME”
Where does script_name get set to on a correct run?
BETTER SOLUTION:
I can create a simple small web page and pass the link to the blackberry to the person on-call.
But I need to have a command line equivalent to the bb-ack.cgi to ACK the outage and supply the following variables.
Same items on the bb-ack.cgi man page: bb-ack.cgiACTION=action
NUMBER=acknum
DELAY=validity
MESSAGE=text
I have not found the correct command.I can DISABLE/ENABLE the device easily from ‘bb’ but I need to make an easy way to acknowledge
the event from a smart phone (blackberry).
*Thanks,*
*Tom Schmitt*
*Senior IT Staff - R&D*
Salt Lake City, UT 84116
Phone (801) *594-3030*
Cell (801) 231-7230
eFax (413) *480-6873*
*D.Tom.Schmitt at L-3Com.com*
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