Re: {bb} Custom SMTP script

[MT <mlist@cmcflex.com>]

> On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 17:23, MT wrote:
> > Brothers,
> >
> > I've been messing around with a custom SMTP script.  The reason is
> > that I would like to set alert levels based on the time it takes for
> > the SMTP server to answer.  The meat of the script is such:
> >
> > OUTPUT=`command time -o /tmp/time.temp $BBHOME/bin/bbnet
> > "10.5.101.7:25"`
> >
> > TIME_RESULTS=`cat /tmp/time.temp | grep "elapsed" | awk '{print $3}'
> > | cut -d: -f2 | sed 's/elapsed//' | cut -d. -f1`
> >
> > if [ "${TIME_RESULTS}" -ge "30" ];
> > then
> >          COLOR="red"
> >          MESSAGE="
> > Telnet timeout exceeded 30 seconds!
> > Actual Completion Time: ${TIME_RESULTS}"
> >
> > elif [ "${TIME_RESULTS}" -gt "15" -a ${TIME_RESULTS} -lt "30" ];
> > then
> >          COLOR="yellow"
> >          MESSAGE="
> > Telnet timeout warning!
> > Actual Completion Time: ${TIME_RESULTS}"
> > else
> >          COLOR="green"
> >          MESSAGE="
> > Telnet normal.
> > Actual Completion Time: ${TIME_RESULTS}"
> > fi
> >
> > I blocked SMTP traffic from BBNET so I could test this out. What's
> > happening is after 20 seconds bbnet returns and the script (because
> > it took 20 seconds) marks status as yellow.  Since I blocked smtp
> > traffic I would want that status to be red (should take longer than
> > 20 seconds).  Is this possible?  Any ideas out there how I can
> > improve this script?
>
> Here, bbnet actually makes three attempts waiting first 3, then 5 and
> then 12 seconds (i.e. 20 seconds overall). If you re-set the values
> of the environment variables (BBNETTIMER1, BBNETTIMER2 and  
> BBNETTIMER3)
> before running bbnet, you can make it wait longer. For example:
>
>     BBNETTIMER1=6
>     BBNETTIMER2=9
>     BBNETTIMER3=16
>
> would last 31 seconds before timing-out.
>
> Cheers, Phil.
Great, thanks Phil.  I was messing with the bbnet.c source and  
couldn't get it to work right (compiling errors, etc).  This is much  
easier.

Thanks again,
Matt
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