[hobbit] alert macro and SERVICE rule

Paul Barton paul at moonkhan.org
Tue Oct 16 01:34:31 CEST 2007


Hi Mark. I believe we've used a variation on this in the past. I think
we had to quote the string.

-Paul

* Mark Hinkle (mhinkle at itradenetwork.com) wrote:
> Hobbit 4.2.0 w/ all-in-one 2007-02-09
> 
> Can you use a macro in the hobbit-alerts.cfg and use the SERVICE rule in 
> addition? Not able to do so at this end...
> 
> hobbit-alerts.cfg
> -----------------
> $patrickemail=MAIL ple at host.com RECOVERED
> $chrisemail=MAIL ccolon at host.com RECOVERED
> $ediemail=MAIL edi at host.com REPEAT=1440m RECOVERED
> 
> HOST=pd-gis
>     $patrickemail
>     $chrisemail SERVICE=http
>     $ediemail SERVICE=status
> 
> 
> 
> Running "hobbitd_alert --dump-config" seems to just stop after the first 
> macro replacement:
> 
> -bash-2.05b$ ./server/bin/bbcmd hobbitd_alert --dump-config
> 2007-10-15 14:20:07 Using default environment file 
> /usr/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
> HOST=pd-gis
>         MAIL ple at host.com FORMAT=TEXT REPEAT=30 RECOVERED
> 
> -bash-2.05b$
> 
> 
> If I change/remove the "SERVICE=http" from the line w/ the $chrisemail 
> macro (for instance make it "DURATION>30"), then it *will* parse that 
> line, but stop at the next one with the "SERVICE" rule:
> 
> -  $chrisemail SERVICE=http
> +  $chrisemail DURATION>30
> 
> 
> -bash-2.05b$ ./server/bin/bbcmd hobbitd_alert --dump-config
> 2007-10-15 14:26:27 Using default environment file 
> /usr/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
> HOST=pd-gis
>         MAIL ple at host.com FORMAT=TEXT REPEAT=30 RECOVERED
>         MAIL ccolon at host.com FORMAT=TEXT REPEAT=30 DURATION>30 RECOVERED
> 
> -bash-2.05b$
> 
> 
> 
> Am I getting this wrong somewhere? Thanks in advance.
> 
> --
> Mark Hinkle
> mhinkle at itradenetwork.com
> 
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Paul Barton             http://www.moonkhan.org
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