[Xymon] Issue with macro expansion in alerts.cfg and "SCRIPT" inside the macro

[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

from my alerts.cfg:

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$TGSEND=/usr/local/bin/xymon-telegram-bot-send-to
$AXELTG=365653126

HOST=mehari EXSERVICE=libs,dirtyvcs,sftbnc,misc
    SCRIPT $TGSEND $AXELTG DURATION>15 RECOVERED REPEAT=24h COLOR=red,yellow FORMAT=TEXT
    SCRIPT $TGSEND $AXELTG             RECOVERED REPEAT=24h COLOR=purple     FORMAT=TEXT
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This works and already uses wormacros.

After reading "In fact, you can put an entire line into a macro" on
https://www.xymon.com/help/xymon-alerts.html#scripts
I tried this:

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$TGSEND=SCRIPT /usr/local/bin/xymon-telegram-bot-send-to
$AXELTG=365653126

HOST=mehari EXSERVICE=libs,dirtyvcs,sftbnc,misc
    $TGSEND $AXELTG DURATION>15 RECOVERED REPEAT=24h COLOR=red,yellow FORMAT=TEXT
    $TGSEND $AXELTG             RECOVERED REPEAT=24h COLOR=purple     FORMAT=TEXT
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But it silently failed to send out any alert. Nothing in
/var/log/xymon/alert.log nor in /var/log/xymon/notifications.log.

And I don't understand why. Is this a bug in macro expansion? Or do
macros only work for either complete lines or single words, but not
multiple words?

		Kind regards, Axel
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