On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 01:06:00PM -0800, Bruce Lysik wrote:

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I'd like to be able to define a macro which replaces several recipient lines. So for example, if many host groups always have a set of four SCRIPT recipients, it would be nice to be able to just define $STANDARDSCRIPTS at the top, and use that macro later.

Why not simply have one script that calls the other four ?

Well, it's probably easier if I show you:

SCRIPT /opt/bb/server/ext/email onduty SERVICE=procs RECOVERED

SCRIPT /opt/bb/server/ext/email ops SERVICE=procs RECOVERED

SCRIPT /opt/bb/server/ext/email onduty SERVICE=http,ping DURATION>6 RECOVERED

SCRIPT /opt/bb/server/ext/email ops SERVICE=http,ping DURATION>6 RECOVERED

SCRIPT /opt/bb/server/ext/email ops EXSERVICE=procs,http,ping RECOVERED

OK, I see. You can't define multi-line macros, but as your example shows it would be useful. I'll see what I can do.

A related question: If I don't define COLOR anywhere in the rule, it should by default alert on 'red', correct?

To be exact, it will alert on the colors defined with the "--alert-colors" option, but the default for that is to alert on red, yellow and purple.

Henrik