[hobbit] HTML Code in Alerts

Mon Mar 6 15:25:57 CET 2006

Chris,

I don't believe that Hobbit will send HTML alerts.  If you want to do this you will need to use a custom notification script for each test that provides HTML alerts.  I use the following script for mine...

############################################################
# The following is an HTML alert script.  Place it in your #
# ext directory as -email-notification.sh.                 #
############################################################

sendmail="/usr/sbin/sendmail"
bbserveraddress="http://<HOST NAME>"

echo $BBCOLORLEVEL
echo $RECOVERED

echo "$BBALPHAMSG" >$BBTMP/originalmessage.$$

lines=`wc -l $BBTMP/originalmessage.$$ | awk '{print $1}'`

rowtail=$(($lines -1))
rowhead=$(($lines -3))
tail -n $rowtail $BBTMP/originalmessage.$$ | head -n $rowhead > $BBTMP/temp.$$

#echo $lines

echo "To: $RCPT" >$BBTMP/notification.$$

case $RECOVERED in

        0)
                case $BBCOLORLEVEL in
                        red)
                                echo "Subject: Hobbit [${ACKCODE}] $BBHOSTNAME:$BBSVCNAME CRITICAL (RED)" >>$BBTMP/notification.$$
                        ;;
                        yellow)
                                echo "Subject: Hobbit [${ACKCODE}] $BBHOSTNAME:$BBSVCNAME warning (YELLOW)" >>$BBTMP/notification.$$
                        ;;
                        green)
                                echo"Subject: Hobbit [${ACKCODE}] $BBHOSTNAME:$BBSVCNAME okay (GREEN)" >>$BBTMP/notification.$$
                        ;;
                esac

                echo "Content-Type: text/html; charset=\"us-ascii\"
<BODY BGCOLOR=\"$BBCOLORLEVEL\" BACKGROUND=\"$bbserveraddress/hobbit/gifs/bkg-$BBCOLORLEVEL.gif\" TEXT=\"#FFFFCC\" LINK=\"#00FFAA\" VLINK=\"#FFFF44\">"  >>$BBTMP/notification.$$
        ;;

        1)
                echo "Subject: Hobbit $BBHOSTNAME:$BBSVCNAME recovered
Content-Type: text/html; charset=\"us-ascii\"
<BODY BGCOLOR=\"green\" BACKGROUND=\"$bbserveraddress/hobbit/gifs/bkg-green.gif\" TEXT=\"#FFFFCC\" LINK=\"#00FFAA\" VLINK=\"#FFFF44\">"  >>$BBTMP/notification.$$
        ;;
esac

cat $BBTMP/temp.$$ >>$BBTMP/notification.$$

echo "<center>
<p>Please see: <a href=\"$bbserveraddress/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?HOSTSVC=$BBHOSTSVCCOMMAS\">Service Details</a>
</p>
</center>" >>$BBTMP/notification.$$

$sendmail $RCPT <$BBTMP/notification.$$

rm -rf $BBTMP/*.$$

exit 1

Then put the following in your hobbit-alerts.cfg file
HOST=* SERVICE=mrtg RECOVERED COLOR=red
        SCRIPT /home/hobbit/server/ext/html-email-notification.sh <EMAIL ADDRESS>

Also, I typically put the HTML alert tests in the EXSERVICE value of my other alerts.  That way it doesn't send out the text alerts and only sends out the HTML ones.

I am no programmer so there may be better ways to accomplish what I did, but it works great and I am happy with it.

Robert Taylor | Senior Manager of Information Systems | Hendrick Automotive Group 
Mobile Phone (704) 241-4432 | NC Office (704) 566-3380 | NC Fax (704) 566-3341

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Blank [mailto:CBlank at abcgroup.com] 
Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 8:39 AM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: [hobbit] HTML Code in Alerts

I am using server custom scripts that return HTML code to the hobbit for
displaying.  One of which is bbmrtg!  I upgraded the latest snapshot
because of another e-mail stating that it was patched in RC2.  I am
still getting the following:

red Sun Feb 26 03:12:35 2006
&red<A
HREF="http://10.32.1.48/cgi-bin/routers2.cgi?rtr=master.cfg&bars=Cami&pa
ge=graph&xgtype=dwmy&xgstyle=l2&if=mrtg.10.32.3.229.mult1&xmtype=options
">Traffic Analysis for Multilink 1 Ranson to Orange:</A> In: 333800
bytes/sec (86.5%) Out: 10590 bytes/sec (2.7%) <CENTER><BR><A
HREF="http://10.32.1.48/cgi-bin/routers2.cgi?rtr=master.cfg&bars=Cami&pa
ge=graph&xgtype=dwmy&xgstyle=l2&if=mrtg.10.32.3.229.mult1&xmtype=options
"><IMG
SRC="http://10.32.1.48/cgi-bin/routers2.cgi?rtr=master.cfg&if=mrtg.10.32
.3.229.mult1&xgtype=d&page=image" ALT="Last 24 Hours"
BORDER=0></A><BR></CENTER> <TABLE BORDER=1 ALIGN=CENTER>  <TR>
  <TH COLSPAN=6><B>Rules</B></TH>
 </TR>
 <TR>
  <TD><FONT COLOR=#00eb0c><B>In</B></FONT></TD>
  <TD BGCOLOR=red><FONT COLOR=black><B>< 0.0%</B></FONT></TD>
  <TD BGCOLOR=yellow><FONT COLOR=black><B>< 0.0%</B></FONT></TD>
  <TD BGCOLOR=green><FONT COLOR=black><B>0.0% - 60.0%</B></FONT></TD>
  <TD BGCOLOR=yellow><FONT COLOR=black><B>> 60.0%</B></FONT></TD>
  <TD BGCOLOR=red><FONT COLOR=black><B>> 80.0%</B></FONT></TD>  </TR>
<TR>
  <TD><FONT COLOR=#1000ff><B>Out</B></FONT></TD>
  <TD BGCOLOR=red><FONT COLOR=black><B>< 0.0%</B></FONT></TD>
  <TD BGCOLOR=yellow><FONT COLOR=black><B>< 0.0%</B></FONT></TD>
  <TD BGCOLOR=green><FONT COLOR=black><B>0.0% - 60.0%</B></FONT></TD>
  <TD BGCOLOR=yellow><FONT COLOR=black><B>> 60.0%</B></FONT></TD>
  <TD BGCOLOR=red><FONT COLOR=black><B>> 80.0%</B></FONT></TD>  </TR>
</TABLE> <BR>

How can I get the Hobbit to send everything as HTML formatted e-mails
vice text?

Chris Blank
Network Engineer
AB&C Group
(304) 725-7050 x 2221

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