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

[Torsten Richter]

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Hi Kris,

maybe you should try

elif [[ $BBALPHAMSG =~ INFO ]]

and see if that works.

Cheers,
Torsten

On 26.08.2020 17:48, 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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