Re: {bb} Alerts with External Script

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

On Sat, 2006-09-02 at 03:44, Chris Morrison wrote:
> Phil,
> 
> The script that I made, as well as devmon, use sockets to communicate to 
> the BB server.  I'm testing the binary method to see if it has the same 
> affect (which it appears to be).
> 
> Even if I replace 'localhost' above with the FQDN of my BB server (which 
> acts as a BBDISPLAY/BBPAGER), it still has the same result.

It's not the FQDN that is needed, it's the IP number. The other
information that is needed by the "bb" binary is taken from the
environment.

> So if I do..  $BBHOME/bin/bb monitor.domain.net "status 
> test.domain.net.test red `date` Oh No"  , I'll look at BB via my web 
> browser, and see that it has in fact received the red alert.  
> Unfortunately, still does not send a page.
> 
> When I finally do $BBHOME/bin/bb monitor.domain.net "page 
> test,domain,net.test red `date` Oh No" , I receive the alert via email. 
> So BB is able to send me the alert, it's just for some reason ignoring 
> the fact that what I sent previously should have sent me an alert 
> automatically because of the red status.
> 
> The exact same thing happens when I send it via sockets. 
> 
> In bbwarnsetup.cfg...
> 
> bbwarn: TRUE
> pagelevels: red purple
> pagelevelsmail: yellow purple
> ignforall:
> pagerecovered: TRUE
> pagetype: EVENT

That's OK but, unless you add "yellow" to pagelevels, you will not
receive any alerts for those messages. The pagelevelsmail token
specifies a sub-set of colours (from pagelevels) for which you
wish to suppress non-mail alerts.

> The really funny thing is, this is only happening with my external 
> scripts.  For all the tests performed directly by the BB server, and all 
> the BB clients reporting into the BB server, everything works fine.
> 
> What's even funnier is that if I go ahead and $BBHOME/bin/bb 
> monitor.domain.net "status test.domain.net.test green `date` Looking 
> Good" , it will alert me that it has recovered, without needing another 
> command to do the page!
> 
> About the maint.pl , if I do $BBHOME/bin/bb monitor.domain.net "disable 
> test.domain.net* 20 Testing" , nothing is created in my bbvar/disabled 
> directory.

Here is an example of a manual test. First, change directory to BBHOME
(I'm using /usr/local/bb/bb1.9i-btf here):

    # cd /usr/local/bb/bb1.9i-btf
    # export BBHOME=/usr/local/bb/bb1.9i-btf
    # . etc/bbdef.sh
    # echo $BBDISP
    192.168.0.50
    # echo $BBPAGE
    192.168.0.50
    # echo $PAGELEVELS
    red purple

    (those appear to be the minimum environment settings for correct
    operation)

    # $BB $BBDISP "status test,domain,net.test red `date` Oh No"

Note that the hostname part of the test definition needs to be comma
delimited. That should work correctly.

Cheers, Phil.



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