RE: {bb} Re: Paging

[Jerry Shenk <jas@dect.com>]

I think you want ~10-120 instead of ^10-120

===== Original Message from Scott Walters <bb@bb4.com> at 9/03/99 1:11 pm
>i am finding the follwing rules are not behaving as i think they should
>
># at night, for prod machines, we only want to be reminded every two
># hours,
># after it's been down for ten minutes
>*;;*;;*;0000-0600 1800-2359;*:^10-120
>
># our trusty admins
>*;;*;;*;*;scott@mysite.com:60
>
>
>it is matching witht he scond rule and sending eamil every hour, ugh.  at
>first glance it seems the wildcard in the recipient line doesn't precede
>an exact match . . .
>
>BIG THOUGHT
>***********
>
>since BBPAGER is only *one* machine why not write the bb-page stuff in
>perl?  i understand the motivation for all the clients to run on every
>incarnation of UNIX known to man, but i bet the majority of brothers have
>perl on their BBPAGER machine.
>
>just seems perl would be a much better fit for all the stuff the paging
>needs to do.  imagine being able to use arrays and hashes  . . .
>
>the below has been sitting in my buffer for a week, i can't remmber what
>it was really about . . . just more observations . . .
>
>On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Robert-Andre Croteau wrote:
>
>> > so if:
>> >
>> > pagelevels: red yellow purple
>> > pagelevelsmail: red yellow purple
>> >
>> > then *only* emails will ever be sent out?
>>
>> yup
>
>I am not seeing that behavior.  email is being sent out for all events,
>even if a page is sent as well.
>
>I looked at bb-page1.sh and I can't make much sense of the two nested
>'case $page' statements under the 'case $BBCOLORLEVEL' command at the end.
>
>1)  why is the second case statement, which dictates pages being sent, in
>a case command cycling through the $PAGELEVELSMAIL and not $PAGELEVELS?
>
>2)  why is there a *@* in the second nested 'case $page'?  isn't the
>decision to send an email in the preceding case command?
>
>Personally I feel an email should *always* be sent (when matching
>recipients are found) if a page is sent. so perhaps the docs in
>bbwarnsetup.cfg hasn't caught up with the code in bb-page1.sh
>
>so i guess i would be interested in a $NOTIFYLEVEL (kinda currently
>$PAGELEVELS) that would tell bb-page or bb-page1 to either A)  process the
>event for notification or B) drop the event with no notifies
>
>if A) is met then let bb-warnrules.cfg do the right thing
>
># send an email and page
>*;;*;;*;*;root@localhost 555-5555
>
># just page
>*;;*;;*;*;555-5556
>
>> > > for now yes :(  It will change when I get time to revamp the whole
>> > > notification
>> > > structure ...
>
>i would really like to now what your plans are with this.  would you care
>to elaborate the 'revamp'?
>
>
>> well, I have many clients who only have 56Kbs Frame Relay lines between
>> sites.  Any reduction in network traffic is good ...
>>
>> Also, each message will start up a bb-page.sh exec.  That's the
>> resources
>> I was talking about...
>
>maintanance/admin has an overhead . . .
>
>> Well, it's in the cards for the next release so I'll see what I can do
>> but
>> I sure would like to get rid of the etc/bbwarnsetup.cfg on the clients.
>
>agreed.
>
>also, this doesn't seem to work right:
>!hg-test;;*;;*;1800-0600;*
>
>do you have to restrict it like this?:
>!hg-test;;*;;*;0000-0600 1800-2359;*
>
>just tested the above and it works. . . . .
>
>--
>Scott Walters
>-PacketPusher
>
>"The world speaks IP"
>
>
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