Re: {bb} Custom messages

[Jeff Stoner <leapfrog@freeshell.org>]

On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Romero, Tony wrote:

> Can anyone tell me how they've gotten around customizing the
> notification bb sends out.  Currently I'm limited to 60 characters in
> our pagers and I'd like to implement a more concise custom message.

Have you tried the briefrcpt token in bbwarnsetup.cfg?
Another way is to create a custom paging script, like this (beware of 
mailer-induced line breaks.) This assumes your pagers have email 
addresses.

#!/bin/sh
#
# The following variables are available thru the environment
#
# BBALPHAMSG - Default message defined
# ACKCODE - Notification associated ack code
# BBHOSTSVC - host in www.xxx.com.disk format
# BBHOSTSVCCOMMAS - host in www,xxx,com.disk format
# RCPT - recipient
# MACHIP - IP address of host in normalized 12 digits AAABBBCCCDDD
# BBSVCNAME - name of service
# BBSVCNUM - numeric equivalent of service (from svcerrlist in bbwarnsetup.cfg)
# BBNUMERIC - ${MACHIP}${BBSVCNUM}
# BBCOLORLEVEL - Color level
# DOWNSECSMSG - Default recovery message
# DOWNSECS - # of seconds to recovery
# RECOVERED - 1 in recovery mode, anything else non-recovery mode

#
# The RCPT value contains the real recipient value.  It was
# stripped of its ext-XXX- prefix (where XXX is what you called
# your notification script, in this example it would be ext-ex1-<recipient>)
#

if [ "$BBTMP" = "" ]
then
        echo "BB environment not set !!!"
        exit 1
fi

# is this a failure or recovery?
if test "$RECOVERED" = "1"
then
   ACTION="recovered"
else
   ACTION="failed"
fi

# send a short-n-sweet message. "Just the facts, m'am"
echo "$BBSVCNAME has $ACTION on $HOST" | $MAIL "$BBHOSTSVC" "$RCPT"

# log it for auditing purposes
echo "Sent \"$ACTION\" message to \"$RCPT\" regarding \"$BBHOSTSVC\" on `date`" >> $BBVAR/acks/phone.log

# all done
exit 0


--Jeff

"I am not available for comment"

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