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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Works like a charm. Thanks.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Galen Johnson [mailto:Galen.Johnson@sas.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, March 11, 2014 9:39 AM<br><b>To:</b> Kevin VerMeer; xymon@xymon.com<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: alert scripting<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div name=divtagdefaultwrapper id=divtagdefaultwrapper><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>You can do this with a custom script. I believe there is a thrah in the archive for this but here is what I came up with to handle it:<br><br>XYMON_NAME=`$XYMON $XYMONSERVERHOSTNAME "hostinfo host=$BBHOSTNAME" | $SED -e 's/|/\n/g' | $GREP NAME | $CUT -d: -f2`<br><br>=G=<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#282828'><hr size=3 width="98%" align=center></span></div><div id=divRplyFwdMsg><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:black'>From:</span></b><span style='color:black'> Xymon <xymon-bounces@xymon.com> on behalf of Kevin VerMeer <KVerMeer@peoplenetonline.com><br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, March 11, 2014 10:12 AM<br><b>To:</b> xymon@xymon.com<br><b>Subject:</b> [Xymon] alert scripting</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#282828'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#282828'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#282828'>In our hosts.cfg file, we include a NAME setting to standardize a naming convention for the several xymon clients. In creating alert scripts, I would like to display this name, rather than the clients hostname. Is this possible, without manually grepping through the hosts.cfg file? It appears that BBHOSTNAME displays the hostname rather than the value set by name.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#282828'>Suggestions appreciated.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>