Hi Henrik and Daniel,

Thanks for support.

Mail message would include specific information about related process or service' name if we use MAIL in hobbit-alerts.cfg, e.g. "&red Cisco Systems, Inc. VPN Service - Stopped".

How can we display similar messages in alert script while a process or service triggers the alert?

Thanks a lot.

Regards, Case

----- Original Message ----- From: "Henrik Stoerner" <henrik at hswn.dk> To: <hobbit at hswn.dk> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 9:43 PM Subject: Re: [hobbit] Why BBSVCNAME,BBHOSTSVC invalid in my alert script?

On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 08:03:06PM +0800, casedj wrote:

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Hobbit 4.2.0 on RHEL4, BB client 1.08d on Windows XP cici.

hobbit-alerts.cfg: HOST=cici SERVICE=procs,svcs SCRIPT /home/hobbit/server/etc/alert-svcs.sh cici

Some environment variables,e.g,BBSVCNAME,BBHOSTSVC are used in alert script, but they actually weren't shown as specific service or process that triggered the alert while the service or process reached down, just generic string procs.

alert-svcs.sh #!/bin/sh echo "$BBHOSTSVC reached error state" |write hobbit echo "$BBSVCNAME reached error state" |write hobbit

The result displayed as below:

Message from hobbit at my_linux on <no tty> at 22:21 ... cici.procs reached error state EOF

Actually, that's exactly as it should be. BBHOSTSVC contains the hostname "cici" AND the servicename "procs", joined together with a dot. So an alert from hosts cici for the procs column has BBHOSTSVC=cici.procs

BBSVCNAME is the service name, "procs" in this case:

...

Message from hobbit at my_linux on <no tty> at 22:21 ... procs reached error state EOF

which is what you also get.

If you want just the hostname, use BBHOSTNAME. See the hobbit-alerts.cfg man page for a listing of what the various variables contain.

Regards, Henrik

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----- Original Message ----- From: "Henrik Stoerner" <henrik at hswn.dk> To: <hobbit at hswn.dk> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 9:43 PM Subject: Re: [hobbit] Why BBSVCNAME,BBHOSTSVC invalid in my alert script?

On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 08:03:06PM +0800, casedj wrote:

...

Hobbit 4.2.0 on RHEL4, BB client 1.08d on Windows XP cici.

hobbit-alerts.cfg: HOST=cici SERVICE=procs,svcs SCRIPT /home/hobbit/server/etc/alert-svcs.sh cici

Some environment variables,e.g,BBSVCNAME,BBHOSTSVC are used in alert script, but they actually weren't shown as specific service or process that triggered the alert while the service or process reached down, just generic string procs.

alert-svcs.sh #!/bin/sh echo "$BBHOSTSVC reached error state" |write hobbit echo "$BBSVCNAME reached error state" |write hobbit

The result displayed as below:

Message from hobbit at my_linux on <no tty> at 22:21 ... cici.procs reached error state EOF

Actually, that's exactly as it should be. BBHOSTSVC contains the hostname "cici" AND the servicename "procs", joined together with a dot. So an alert from hosts cici for the procs column has BBHOSTSVC=cici.procs

BBSVCNAME is the service name, "procs" in this case:

...

Message from hobbit at my_linux on <no tty> at 22:21 ... procs reached error state EOF

which is what you also get.

If you want just the hostname, use BBHOSTNAME. See the hobbit-alerts.cfg man page for a listing of what the various variables contain.

Regards, Henrik

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Note that lots of network check ( the ones defined in bb-services ) will not report statuses on a line starting with &color, they start with "Service..." . The following perl snippet is what I use to pick out statuses in my custom notification script.

    $subject="$ENV{BBHOSTSVC}: $ENV{BBCOLORLEVEL} ";

    foreach( split('\n',$ENV{BBALPHAMSG}) ) {
            if ( /^\&(yellow|red|purple)/ ){
                    $message .= $_;
            }
            if ( /^Service.* not OK/ ){
                    $message = $_;
            }
    }

Then use smtp mail to send out an email, you can concatenate $subject and $message togheter to if you whish to send out a message with no subject, nice for phones and pagers.

Enjoy

Daniel Bourque Systems/Network Administrator Weather Data Inc

Office (316) 266-8013 Office (316) 265-9127 ext. 3013 Mobile (316) 640-1024

Henrik Stoerner wrote:

On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 03:05:28PM +0800, case wrote:

...

Mail message would include specific information about related process or service' name if we use MAIL in hobbit-alerts.cfg, e.g. "&red Cisco Systems, Inc. VPN Service - Stopped".

How can we display similar messages in alert script while a process or service triggers the alert?

The full status message text is passed in the BBALPHAMSG env. variable. Process that to pick out lines with "&red", "&yellow" and so on. E.g.

echo "$BBALPHAMSG" | egrep "^&red|&yellow"

Regards, Henrik

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