Re: {bb} Notification Problems on Custom Test

[pelmaillist <pelmaillists@lightbridge.com>]

I had a similar issue.  If you are not using the bb client to send
the messages, you need to send the data twice.

Once with a "status" message
    and
Again with a "page" message

I do this like this in a perl script:

> #
> my $socket = IO::Socket::INET->new(PeerAddr => $remote_host,
>                                
> PeerPort => $remote_port,
>                                
> Proto    => "tcp",
>                                
> Type     => SOCK_STREAM)
>     or die "Couldn't connect to
> $remote_host:$remote_port : $!\n";
>
> # send something over the socket,
> #print $socket "status test.test green Wed Jul 13 09:53:07 EDT 2005
> this is a test\n ";
> if ( $TextData ) {
>   printf $socket "status+%s %s.%s %s %s
> %s\n","$Delay","$Server","$TestJob","$StatusColor","$UnixDate","$TextData";
>   }
> else {
>   printf $socket "status+%s %s.%s %s
> %s\n","$Delay","$Server","$TestJob","$StatusColor","$UnixDate";
>   while (<INFILE>) {
>       chomp();
>       printf $socket "%s
> \n","$_";
>       }
>   printf $socket "\n";
>   close(INFILE);
>   }
>
> # read the remote answer,
> my $answer = <$socket>;
>
> if ( $Alert != 0 ) {
>   # and terminate the connection when we're done.
>   close($socket);
>   $socket = IO::Socket::INET->new(PeerAddr =>
> $remote_host,
>                                
> PeerPort => $remote_port,
>                                
> Proto    => "tcp",
>                                
> Type     => SOCK_STREAM)
>       or die "Couldn't connect to
> $remote_host:$remote_port : $!\n";
>   printf $socket "page %s.%s %s
> %s\n","$Server","$TestJob","$StatusColor","$UnixDate";
> }
>
> # read the remote answer,
> $answer = <$socket>;
>
> # and terminate the connection when we're done.
> close($socket);


At 01:52 PM 8/17/2006, dthacker9@cox.net wrote:
> We're running bb-1.9e on both
> client and servers.
>
> We've build a custom test that runs on one of our client servers and
> sends
> a status message to the BBDISPLAY.  The host is defined like
> this
>
> 0.0.0.0    customtest.mydomain.com # noping noconn
> discards
>
> bbwarnrules looks like this:
>
> customtest.mydomain.com;;discards;;0-6;0000-2359;
> sysadmin@mydomain.com:10
>
> The test is being received and displayed.  When the status changes
> it shows
> up as an event on the event summary web page.  The sysadmin@mydomain
> address is working for other alarms.  The bbwarnrules file passes a
> bbchkwarnrules run cleanly.  If I turn the alarm to red, I cannot
> get a notification.  If I do not update status for over 30 minutes,
> I do get a purple notification.  How does bbpage gather it's list of
> items that need to be run through the bbwarnrules file? Where should I
> look to make sure this red alarm is creating the correct "hook"
> for bbpage to see and act on?
>
> TIA  DT
>
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