Greg,

thanks for the answer. I'm not deep inside C Code, therefore,may I ask an additional question?

Do you see any possible ways, to enhance the code to allow a Downtime alerting? I'm thinking about something like "DTALERT=email1,email2" added to the objects in the bb-hosts file and whenever a downtime is scheduled, hobbit-enadis.cgi could perhaps trigger this to the alert?

With BigBrother, I did a lot of minor code changes and at the end, this results in the situation, that I never update the software itself, because I don't know, how to re-apply my changes. I have no experience with patching and version-control and more than scripting is also not my cup of tea. My concern is, if I do "private" changes to hobbit, I run in the same situation...

mit freundlichen Grüßen - Best regards Met vriendelijke groeten - Sincères salutations,

Oliver Grube

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You could look at the source, and you would realize that the answer to your first question is "no" and that the answer to the second question is "not unless you write a script to create and send the email yourself and call it for the alarms that you want to send email for..."

-----Original Message----- From: oliver_grube at campbellsoup.com [mailto:oliver_grube at campbellsoup.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 8:05 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] Downtime Alerting #2

Hello Hobbits,

my last post was perhaps simply overseen, because I can't believe, that nobody knows something about my question. Or did I miss a chapter in the Manual?

By using the "info" Column you can easily disable a System for a planned downtime. However, I would like to inform a group a people about this automatically by sending an eMail directly, when the Downtime is scheduled. Is there a way to do so?

And is there a general way, to change the Look & Text of an Alert eMail?

mit freundlichen Grüßen - Best regards Met vriendelijke groeten - Sincères salutations,

Oliver Grube EU Security&Controls Manager

Campbell's Germany Geninerstr. 88-100 23560 Luebeck Tel.: +49 451/ 5306-226 Fax: +49 451/ 5306-356

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Hello,

I would like to implement Downtime alerting when a downtime is scheduled. In our environment, we are working on an European level together. Therefore, for some devices, we need to inform colleagues and third party connections about a planned downtime. EG. if a VPN Router will not be available for a while...

I'm thinking about an EXT Script to do downtime alerting right when the planned downtime is scheduled.

It's like:

• Check scheduled Task list for entries
• Check internal file, if already informed
• Run against each entry in Task list, if not already informed
• Send eMail to receipt following alerting rules looking for "NOTICE" and "NOALERT"
• Cleanup internal file for not valid entries (comparing the scheduled Task list)
• If a not valid entry with date in future exists, send Alert to inform about cancelled downtime
• Delete not valid entry
• Add new informed device and planned Downtime to internal file
• Exit

For a perl/bash scripting guy, this will be an easy task, however, I've written my last perl Script in 2003... :-(, because most devices running MS and I script more VBScripts...

Has anybody any hint for me?

mit freundlichen Grüßen - Best regards Met vriendelijke groeten - Sincères salutations,

Oliver Grube

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I could be wrong as well but I am using NOTICE and it doesn't seem to trigger for a 'scheduled' disable. It only triggers if the enable/disable is scheduled for 'now'.

It would definitely be helpful if it did though.

On 4/24/07, shea_greg at emc.com <shea_greg at emc.com> wrote: Hi Oliver,

  Maybe I don't understand fully but can't you use the NOTICE rule
  in the hobbit-alerts.cfg file to send an email?  I've seen this
  thread http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2005/03/msg00282.html

  Again if I'm off-base let me know
  -Grs-
  Gregory R Shea
  EMC Corporation

  -----Original Message-----
  From: oliver_grube at campbellsoup.com [mailto:
  oliver_grube at campbellsoup.com ]
  Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 9:05 AM
  To: hobbit at hswn.dk
  Subject: [hobbit] Downtime Alerting #2





  Hello Hobbits,

  my last post was perhaps simply overseen, because I can't believe,
  that
  nobody knows something about my question. Or did I miss a chapter in
  the
  Manual?

  By using the "info" Column you can easily disable a System for a
  planned
  downtime. However, I would like to inform a group a people about this

  automatically by sending an eMail directly, when the Downtime is
  scheduled.
  Is there a way to do so?

  And is there a general way, to change the Look & Text of an Alert
  eMail?

  mit freundlichen Grüßen - Best regards
  Met vriendelijke groeten  -  Sincères salutations,

  Oliver Grube
  EU Security&Controls Manager


  Campbell's Germany
  Geninerstr. 88-100
  23560 Luebeck
  Tel.: +49 451/ 5306-226
  Fax: +49 451/ 5306-356


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