[hobbit] List of Variables passed to Scripts

[Charles Jones]

Make a script that performs the "export" command, and logs the output to 
a file, then you should be able to see all the available variables, 
including Hobbit ones :)

-Charles

Geoff Hallford 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.
>  
> Thanks for the thought though.
>
>  
> On 3/19/07, *Kauffman, Tom* <KauffmanT at nibco.com 
> <mailto:KauffmanT at nibco.com>> wrote:
>
>     Check the man pages for hobbit-alerts.cfg; at the end is the list
>     of environment variables passed to the scripts.
>
>      
>
>     Tom
>
>      
>
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>     *From:* Geoff Hallford [mailto: geoff.hallford at gmail.com
>     <mailto:geoff.hallford at gmail.com>]
>     *Sent:* Monday, March 19, 2007 1:01 PM
>     *To:* hobbit at hswn.dk <mailto:hobbit at hswn.dk>
>     *Subject: * [hobbit] List of Variables passed to Scripts
>
>      
>
>     Hi,
>
>      
>
>     Is there a list of the variables that are passed to alerting
>     scripts and what they contain? I haven't found a list and I would
>     like to make our custom alerting script much more descriptive by
>     adding items such as IP address, ...
>
>      
>
>     Thanks.
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