This is how hobbit reports statuses( mostly ), so it makes it easier to make your checks & alert scripts more generic.

to grab status messages ( perl ):

foreach $line ( split($ENV{BBALPHAMSG},'\n') ) { if ( /^&(yellow|red|purple)/ ) { # do whatever with $line } }

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Hubbard, Greg L wrote:

&green, etc

*From:* Haertig, David F (Dave) [mailto:haertig at avaya.com]
*Sent:* Wednesday, June 06, 2007 4:15 PM
*To:* hobbit at hswn.dk
*Subject:* [hobbit] Using Hobbit icons inside your status messages

Is there some "officially condoned" method to get Hobbit icons
into your status messages?
 
Back when using Big Brother, I would just add something like:

<IMG SRC=/gifs/green.gif ALT=green HEIGHT=16 WIDTH=16 BORDER=0>

to the status message. I'm sure something similar would work for Hobbit too.

I was just wondering if there was some built-in auto substitution in Hobbit that would be cleaner. Maybe like putting " __GREEN__" inside the status message.