[hobbit] qpage

[Andy France]

Hi Al,

"Jeffcoat, Al" wrote on 14/06/2005 14:22:44:

> Can someone tell me the format of adding qpage messages into the
> hobbit-alerts.cfg please?  I have qpage working, and sending pages
> from CLI, but the following line in hobbit-alerts.cfg is not working for
me:
>
> SCRIPT /usr/local/bin/qpage userid FORMAT=TEXT
>
> TIA
>
> Al Jeffcoat


I also use qpage, but have a wrapper script like this:


  #!/opt/csw/bin/bash
  #
  # Script: /home/hobbit/bin/qpage.sh
  #
  # Script get the following environment variables pre-defined so
  # that they can send a meaningful alert:
  #
  #    BBALPHAMSG    - The full text of the status log triggering the alert
  #    ACKCODE       - The "cookie" that can be used to acknowledge the
alert
  #    RCPT          - The recipient, from the SCRIPT entry
  #    BBHOSTNAME    - The name of the host that the alert is about
  #    MACHIP        - The IP-address of the host that has a problem
  #    BBSVCNAME     - The name of the service that the alert is about
  #    BBSVCNUM      - The numeric code for the service. From SVCCODES
definition.
  #    BBHOSTSVC     - HOSTNAME.SERVICE that the alert is about.
  #    BBHOSTSVCCOMMAS - As BBHOSTSVC, but dots in the hostname replaced
with commas
  #    BBNUMERIC     - A 22-digit number made by BBSVCNUM, MACHIP and
ACKCODE.
  #    RECOVERED     - Is "1" if the service has recovered.
  #    DOWNSECS      - Number of seconds the service has been down.
  #    DOWNSECSMSG   - When recovered, holds the text "Event duration : N"
where
  #                    N is the DOWNSECS value.

  #
  # Minumum hobbit-alerts.cfg entry -
  # SCRIPT /home/hobbit/bin/qpage.sh support-pg FORMAT=SMS
  #

  if [ ${RECOVERED} = 1 ]
  then
          STATUS="OK"
  else
          COLOR=`echo ${BBALPHAMSG} | /usr/bin/awk ' { print $2 } '`
          STATUS="${COLOR} ${ACKCODE}"
  fi

  /usr/local/bin/qpage ${RCPT} ${BBHOSTSVC} ${STATUS}


Note that I have massaged the status code - it seems some of our on-call
folk don't like "-1" as an indicator that things have recovered.  It
doesn't register quickly enough with the brain in the wee small hours of
the morning ;-)

The corresponding line in hobbit-alert.cfg then becomes:


  SCRIPT /home/hobbit/bin/qpage.sh support-pg REPEAT=60m RECOVERED
FORMAT=SMS COLOR=red


"support-pg" is configured as a "pager" in the qpage.cf file.

HTH,
Andy.

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