[hobbit] DESCR Info in Alerts

[Geoff Hallford]

Thank you. Will do.

On 1/24/07, Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 08:58:02AM -0500, Geoff Hallford wrote:
>
> > I was wondering if there is anyway to change the default email alert
> > contents to include the DESCR tag information for a host (without
> creating a
> > custom alert script)? We have many support people who don't know what
> all of
> > the hosts are for or if it goes down, what that means and I want to make
> it
> > easier for them to know what is affected.
>
> You'll either have to create a custom alert script, or tweak the
> hobbitd/do_alert.c C code. If you choose the latter, then the
> message_subject() and message_text() routines are the ones you're after;
> you can get the DESCR tag with code like this:
>
>     namelist_t *hinfo;
>     char *descr;
>
>     hinfo = hostinfo(alert->hostname);
>     descr = bbh_item(hinfo, BBH_DESCRIPTION);
>
> Note that this will return a NULL pointer if there is no DESCR tag for
> this host.
>
>
>
> Regards,
> Henrik
>
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