[Xymon] Problems with acking

[David Fogarty]

My coworkers (and I) have been frustrated with the amount of clutter there 
is on the bb-ack.sh page, so I wrote one of my own.  It works, mostly, but 
falls short of our needs in one way.  We'd like to pre-ack before the 
first page comes through.

Our version only lists tests that have cookies defined in the output of 
hobbitdboard (see the bb manpage).  It uses that cookie to submit acks to 
bb-ack.sh.  When there have been no notifications yet, it doesn't work. 
This is horrible when we're already getting flooded with tests due to a 
switch failure or something.

This is running on Debian wheezy (7.8) using the stock 4.3.0~beta2.dfsg-9 
Debian package from the distro.

Any ideas?

Dave Fogarty

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