[hobbit] List of Variables passed to Scripts

[Geoff Hallford]

Thanks Charles. The 'env' command gave me the same results but a good
suggestion none the less.

On 3/20/07, Charles Jones <jonescr at cisco.com> wrote:
>
> Make a script that performs the "export" command, and logs the output to a
> file, then you should be able to see all the available variables, including
> Hobbit ones :)
>
> -Charles
>
> Geoff Hallford wrote:
>
> Hi Tom,
>
> Thanks I know about this list but it doesn't provide all variables passed
> to the scripts. When I wanted to find out a couple months ago, how to
> include the DESCR tag (from bb-hosts) in my script, Henrik told me I could
> use the $BBH_DESCRIPTION variable and it does work and is passed to the
> script. This variable is not included in the list in hobbit-alerts.cfg man
> page. I am just wondering if there are more variables not listed in there,
> that are passed because I have alerts for 8 organizations on my server and
> about 700 servers/devices, so I would like to be more descriptive if
> possible in my alerting.
>
> Thanks for the thought though.
>
>
> On 3/19/07, Kauffman, Tom <KauffmanT at nibco.com> wrote:
> >
> >  Check the man pages for hobbit-alerts.cfg; at the end is the list of
> > environment variables passed to the scripts.
> >
> >
> >
> > Tom
> >
> >
> >  ------------------------------
> >
> > *From:* Geoff Hallford [mailto: geoff.hallford at gmail.com]
> > *Sent:* Monday, March 19, 2007 1:01 PM
> > *To:* hobbit at hswn.dk
> > *Subject: *[hobbit] List of Variables passed to Scripts
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> >
> > Is there a list of the variables that are passed to alerting scripts and
> > what they contain? I haven't found a list and I would like to
> > make our custom alerting script much more descriptive by adding items such
> > as IP address, ...
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks.
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