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

[Kris Springer]

It worked! Well done Ralph.  Thank you.

Here's my updated instructions to close the loop on this topic.
https://krisspringer.com/posts/xymon-email-alerts.php

Kris Springer


On 8/27/20 7:12 AM, Ralph M wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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 <mailto:bb4 at richter-it.net>>
>     To: Kris Springer <kspringer at innovateteam.com
>     <mailto:kspringer at innovateteam.com>>
>     Cc: Xymon MailingList <xymon at xymon.com <mailto: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 <tel: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>
>     >> <mailto: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>
>     <mailto: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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