[hobbit] List of Variables passed to Scripts

Ralph Mitchell ralphmitchell at gmail.com
Mon Mar 19 21:09:51 CET 2007


On 3/19/07, Geoff Hallford <geoff.hallford at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Tom,
>
> Thanks I know about this list but it doesn't provide all variables passed to
> the scripts. When I wanted to find out a couple months ago, how to include
> the DESCR tag (from bb-hosts) in my script, Henrik told me I could use the
> $BBH_DESCRIPTION variable and it does work and is passed to the script. This
> variable is not included in the list in hobbit-alerts.cfg man page. I am
> just wondering if there are more variables not listed in there, that are
> passed because I have alerts for 8 organizations on my server and about 700
> servers/devices, so I would like to be more descriptive if possible in my
> alerting.

Did you try putting something like:

   env > /tmp/alert.env

into the alert script??  It should tell you *everything* that gets
passed in the environment.

Ralph Mitchell



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