On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 10:24:37PM, Henrik Stoerner wrote:

On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 02:00:04PM -0500, Asif Iqbal wrote:

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How do you send an ACK with Delay through the email in Hobbit?

Should I need to use BB commands? Does it generate any ACK Code that I can associate with BB command to delay?

Alerts do include an ACK code, also in Hobbit. I haven't tried it, but since the BB ack protocol is also supported in Hobbit, the BB ack-by-mail script should work fine in Hobbit.

If that fails, then it is pretty simple - you need some sort of e.g. procmail script that calls the "bb" tool like this:

bb ip.of.hobbit.server "hobbitdack ACKCODE MINUTES TEXT"

Is there a way to retrieve an alert based on the ACKCODE? In Bigbrother 1.9c I was using the following script "findhostsvc.sh ACKCODE"--that I received from the bigbrother mailing list--to get the details. (I know it is not always reliable but it worked for me)

$ cat findhostsvc.sh

#!/bin/sh BBHOME=/export/home/bbro/bb ackcode=$1 cd $BBHOME/tmp np_file=grep $ackcode np_* 2>/dev/null set bogus echo $np_file shift # get rid of bogus

$2 has host.service combination

hostsvc=$2 echo $hostsvc

Thanks for any suggestion on this.

Regards, Henrik

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On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 08:30:23AM, Henrik Stoerner wrote:

On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 08:23:26PM -0500, Asif Iqbal wrote:

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Is there a way to retrieve an alert based on the ACKCODE?

[snip BB script that picks out hostname+service for an ack code]

I hope you don't mind my asking: Why ?

This way I can keep the delay script simple. I do not have to parse the host.service info from the subject or body of the message. Plus with skytel it looses the subject. So I just look for the [12345] code in the email and just use that as a reference to pick up the host.service

Thanks

The only way you can get the ack-code is via an alert-message that already includes the host+service name.

So I'd like to know what you're using this for, because I have a suspicion that you're really trying to do something that ought to be done in another way.

Regards, Henrik

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On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 10:24:37PM, Henrik Stoerner wrote:

On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 02:00:04PM -0500, Asif Iqbal wrote:

...

How do you send an ACK with Delay through the email in Hobbit?

Should I need to use BB commands? Does it generate any ACK Code that I can associate with BB command to delay?

Alerts do include an ACK code, also in Hobbit. I haven't tried it, but since the BB ack protocol is also supported in Hobbit, the BB ack-by-mail script should work fine in Hobbit.

If that fails, then it is pretty simple - you need some sort of e.g. procmail script that calls the "bb" tool like this:

bb ip.of.hobbit.server "hobbitdack ACKCODE MINUTES TEXT"

Is the ACKCODE same for all recipients? I know in bigbrother it was different for different reciepent so you can either delay it for all OR delay it for specific reciepient

Thanks

Regards, Henrik

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On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 09:07:33PM -0500, Asif Iqbal wrote:

Is the ACKCODE same for all recipients? I know in bigbrother it was different for different reciepent so you can either delay it for all OR delay it for specific reciepient

They are the same for all recipients.

Henrik