Re: {bb} stop sending page messages from client ?

[Philip Clark <bblist@cannae.uklinux.net>]

On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 22:30, John Foley wrote:
> I'm running the version 1.9c binaries.
> 
> My understanding is that the client sends the "status"
> messages to the BBDISPLAY machine, and the "page" messages
> to the BBPAGER machine - is that not correct ?

Yes (or should that be no), that is correct :)

I'd suggest that, if you just want to stop alerts from some
of your hosts, you should configure bbwarnrules.cfg on the
server to ignore them. If you really do want the "page"
message to be stopped, I think that you'll need to modify
src/bbinc.sh on the client. About three-quarters of the
way into the file, set BBPAGE to a null value in two places,
like so:

  BBPAGERS=`echo $BBPAGERS`
  set $BBPAGERS
  if test "$#" -eq 1
  then
    BBPAGE=""             # ORIGINAL FLAVOR...
    BBPAGERS=""
  else
    BBPAGE=""             # DUMMY - DON'T USE...
  fi

Caveat - Despite the priorities of many users, sending out
alerts is really the primary notification function of BB. 
The web display is essentially there so that you can find
out why you received an alert.

As a result, configuring a client to never send out a "page"
message is a lot more non-standard than it may appear and
could be very difficult to debug if you (or worse, someone
else) wants to reverse this at a later date. If you do this,
document it all over the place (e.g. a file called
WHY_THIS_CLIENT_WONT_SEND_ALERTS.txt on the client. If this
is just for a sub-set of hosts, I'd be inclined to display
them on their own web page with a title like "Clients
Configured Not To Talk To BBPAGER".

Cheers, Phil.



-- 
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought,
but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
(Albert Einstein)

--
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
To unsubscribe from this list, or to subscribe to the bb-digest list
send e-mail to mailto:majordomo@bb4.com with unsubscribe bb -and/or-
subscribe bb-digest in the BODY of the message.