Re: {bb} Double mailings

[Henrik Olsen <henrik@iaeste.dk>]

On Fri, 28 May 1999, CORMIER, MICHAEL wrote:
> Is is possible to setup Bigbrother (1.2a) to send mail to two different
> administrators.  I know it's possible for different services but is it
> possible for different processes in a same service.
> 
> Here is an example:
> 
> Admin1 is taking care of these processes: "inetd, syslog, sendmail,
> sshd" and  admin2 these processes: "ciscosecure, trendadmin,
> sm_arnotify". All these processes are defined in the same service which
> is procs. How can I setup BB to have a mail send to admin1 the processes
> monitored and a mail to admin2 when one of his processes goes down.

Not out of the box, but adding an EXT scrips for the second set of procs
isn't difficult, in such a way that you split the two sets of procs into
two reports: procs and procs2.

First mark the first set of as normal with PROCS/PAGEPROCS in bbdef.sh,
and add the second set as well:
---- Cutting here will damage your monitor ----
PROCS="bbd"                                     # (YELLOW) WARN IF ONE OF THESE NOT RUNNING
PAGEPROC="inetd syslog sendmail sshd"           # (RED) PAGE IF ONE OF THESE NOT RUNNING
export PROCS PAGEPROC
PROCS2=""                                       # (YELLOW) WARN IF ONE OF THESE NOT RUNNING
PAGEPROC2="ciscosecure trendadmin sm_arnotify"  # (RED) PAGE IF ONE OF THESE NOT RUNNING
export PROCS2 PAGEPROC2
---- End ----

Then in the ext dir, make a bb-procs2.sh like this:
---- Cutting here will damage your monitor ----
#!/bin/sh
# bb-procs2.sh
#=====================================================================
# SECOND GROUP OF PROCESSES THAT MUST EXIST
#=====================================================================
if test ! "$BBTMP"                      # GET DEFINITIONS IF NEEDED
then
         # echo "*** LOADING BBDEF ***"
        . $BBHOME/etc/bbdef.sh          # INCLUDE STANDARD DEFINITIONS
fi
LINE=""
STATLINE="No processes to check"
COLOR="green"
for proc in $PROCS2 $PAGEPROC2
do
        $GREP "$proc" $BBTMP/bb.$$ > /dev/null 2>&1
        if test "$?" != "0"
        then
                STATLINE="Some processes are DOWN"
                echo "$PAGEPROC" | $GREP "$proc" > /dev/null 2>&1
                if test "$?" = "0"
                then
                        COLOR="red"
                        LINE="$LINE &red $proc DOWN"
                else
                        if test "$COLOR" != "red"       # WASN'T A PANIC
                        then
                                COLOR="yellow"          # SO JUST WARN
                        fi
                        LINE="$LINE &yellow $proc DOWN"
                fi
        else
                if [ "$COLOR" = "green" ]
                then
                        STATLINE="All processes are UP"
                fi
                LINE="$LINE &green $proc UP"
        fi
done
$BB $BBDISP "status $MACHINE.procs2 $COLOR `date` $STATLINE $LINE"
$RM -f $BBTMP/bb.$$
---- End ----

This will add a procs2 column for the server and make it easy to decide
which of the admins to page.

Setting up bbwarn is left as an excercise to the reader.

-- 
Henrik Olsen,  Dawn Solutions I/S       URL=http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/
 `Can you count, Banjo?' He looked smug. `Yes, miss. On m'fingers, miss.'
 `So you can count up to ...?' Susan prompted.
 `Thirteen, miss,' said Banjo proudly.         Terry Pratchett, Hogfather


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