Jeremy, NEWMSG=echo "$BBALPHAMSG" | grep -v '<!--[^>]*>'

Worked! Thanks!

Rod

From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Jeremy Laidman Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2014 5:53 PM To: usa ims; xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] removing <!-- [flags:ordAstLe] > from custom email script

Have you tried using FORMAT=SMS on alerts.cfg?

Or try this in your script:

NEWMSG=echo "$BBALPHAMSG" | grep -v '<!--[^>]*>'

J On 03/10/2014 12:19 AM, "usa ims" <usaims at yahoo.com<mailto:usaims at yahoo.com>> wrote: Hey Jeremy -- I'm Rod with Boca Raton, Florida USA.

Thanks for the advice. Is there any way to eliminate that whole line?

Here is the output of one test:

10.204.40.148:BobProd red [0] green

        BIG BROTHER MESSAGE
        -------------------
        DATACENTER : D0
        HOSTNAME : 10.x.x.x
        STATE : Normal
        STATUS : Green
        TEST : BobProd EchoTest
        RESPONSE SUCCEEDED : 7.628518237 sec
        IP : 10.xxx.xxx.xxx
        EVENT TIME : Wed 01 Oct 2014 03:35:24 PM EDT

See http://localhost/xymon-cgi/svcstatus.sh?HOST=10.204.40.148&SERVICE=BobProd

It would be nice to eliminate "10.xxx.xxx.xxx:BobProd red [0]"