{bb} BB and text pagers

[Louis Wilcox <lwilcox@attdserv.ch.intel.com>]

Greetings,

    I have been using BB for a year now and am upgrading to 1.3a this week. 
    I am monitoring 75 sparc workstations and a few HP and Auspex servers.
    My Auspex servers have 125 filesystems that are monitored by BB. I am
    using a perl script to send text pages to my pagenet pager. I wanted
    my text pages to be short and have only the failing information in a 
    priority order so that when the pager cuts off after 200 chars I get the
    most important information.
    
    Each time I upgrade to a new rev I have to modify many files to make 
    make the system work for my site. 
    
    The main things I change are as follows:
    
    Reverse the sort direction so that the fullest disks are at the top of 
    the list so when it is cutoff I don't loose the important data. This also 
    makes the red error be sent before the yellow.
    
    Modify all of the bb-local tests to change the message sent to the BB
    system in the event of a alert. I modify the message to a specific string 
    to be sent to the alpha pagers with specific information. Here is an 
    example:
    
    <!-- PAGER ctt-sqc red Wed Feb 2 16:48:54 MST 2000 /home 99% NPAGER -->
    
    This is a comment on the web page so it is not displayed and the pager 
    script strips out the information between PAGER & NPAGER. This gives
    me the specific information that I need without looking at anything else.
  
    Does anyone else make these types of changes?
    
    Thanks Louis
    
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