[Xymon] Alert script "BBCOLORLEVEL" is red when recovered

[Ralph M]

How about this?

     INFO=`echo "$BBALPHAMSG" | grep -c INFO`

     if [ ........ ]; then
          # something
     elif [ $INFO -gt 0 ]; then
          echo "INFO found"
     fi

Ralph Mitchell


On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 1:18 AM <kspringer at innovateteam.com> wrote:

> I did a lot of searching and tried all sorts of different variations with
> no success. So I gave up on it unless someone has a known functioning line
> of code they can share.
>
> Thanks,
> Kris Springer
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Torsten Richter <bb4 at richter-it.net>
> To: Kris Springer <kspringer at innovateteam.com>
> Cc: Xymon MailingList <xymon at xymon.com>
> Sent: Wed, 26 Aug 2020 10:55 PM
> Subject: Re: [Xymon] Alert script "BBCOLORLEVEL" is red when recovered
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> Hi Kris,
>
> maybe you should try
>
> elif [[ $BBALPHAMSG =~ INFO ]]
>
> and see if that works.
>
> Cheers,
> Torsten
>
> On 26.08.2020 17 <2608202017>:48, Kris Springer wrote:
> > Thanks Ralph, I got the 'Recovered' emails working now.  On to the
> > 'Info' emails!  I've tried added an elif line to look for the word INFO
> > in the message content, but it doesn't seem to work.  Any thoughts?
> > Here's the line I'm using.
> >
> > elif [[ $BBALPHAMSG = *INFO* ]];
> > then
> > echo "Info found"
> >
> > Kris Springer
> >
> >
> > On 8/25/20 7:32 PM, Ralph M wrote:
> >> Call me crazy if you like, but in the alerts.cfg file, in the list of
> >> environment variables passed to the script, it says:
> >>
> >>      #    BBCOLORLEVEL  - The color of the alert: "red", "yellow" or
> >> "purple"
> >>      ... [snip] ...
> >>      #    RECOVERED     - Is "1" if the service has recovered.
> >>
> >> So, um, just check $RECOVERED ??
> >>
> >>      if [ $RECOVERED -eq 1 ]; then
> >>           # send recovery email
> >>      fi
> >>
> >> Ralph Mitchell
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 8:04 PM Jeremy Laidman <jeremy at laidman.org
> >> <mailto:jeremy at laidman.org>> wrote:
> >>
> >>     Kris
> >>
> >>     I suspect $BBCOLORLEVEL is set to the color of the original
> >> condition.
> >>
> >>     According to the man page for alerts.cfg, if the word &COLOR& is
> >>     in the recipient parameter, it is replaced by the colour of the
> >>     alert. This might give the updated colour after the alert
> >>     recovered, instead of the alert colour.
> >>
> >>     Or, you can use something like this:
> >>
> >>     NEWCOL=`$XYMON $XYMSRV "xymondboard host=$BBHOSTNAME
> >>     test=$BBSVCNAME fields=color"`
> >>
> >>     Cheers
> >>     Jeremy
> >>
> >>     On Wed, 26 Aug 2020 at 08:38, Kris Springer
> >>     <kspringer at innovateteam.com <mailto:kspringer at innovateteam.com>>
> >>     wrote:
> >>
> >>         I know this is old, but it's still an issue.  I have a script
> >>         that uses
> >>         $BBCOLORLEVEL that works great, except the RECOVERED messages
> >>         come in as
> >>         Red.  They don't say 'Recovered', they say 'Red'.  I'm not
> >>         much of a
> >>         coder, but is there perhaps some way to have my bash script
> >>         figure out
> >>         if the message is a 'recovered' message and print that as the
> >>         BBCOLORLEVEL instead of printing Red?
> >>
> >>         --
> >>         Kris Springer
> >>
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