Re: {bb} yellow to red and vice versa alerts

[Jeff Stoner <leapfrog@freeshell.org>]

On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Michael Vincent Pozon wrote:

> Can BB be configured to send another alert if the color turns to red
> from yellow?
> From what I know, BB will only send once with the following config:
>
> pagelevels: yellow red

Actually, it sends every 15 minutes while a situation is pagable (red or 
yellow.) Big Brother recognizes changes in states but for paging purposes, 
it only recognizes a change from a pagable situation to a non-pagable 
situation (and vice versa). Since you've defined red and yellow as pagable 
situations, Big Brother doesn't care about changing from red to yellow or 
yellow to red since it is the same thing from a paging standpoint.

> also, if there any variable that I can use in the external program to
> check the previous color?

No. To do this, your paging script must maintain state through temp files 
or some such.

> So far, the only variable related to color that I can use in the
> external program is $BBCOLORLEVEL. Is there $BBPREVIOUSCOLORLEVEL ?

Nope, but could be submitted as an enhancement request. The only variable 
indicating a change like that is $RECOVERED, which indicates a change from 
a pagable state to a non-pagable state (ie. from red to green, from yellow 
to blue, etc.)

--Jeff

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