Jim Trocki writes:
>
> unfortunately i neglected to add it to the man page, but there is already
> a similar capability. for example:
>
> watch something
> service ftp
> interval 5m
> monitor ftp.monitor
> MON_VAR=this is the value
>
> when the monitor or alert for that service is called it sets
> the environment variable "MON_VAR" to "this is the value".
[...]
> is that what you're asking for?
Almost, though not quite. This will work great for customizing
the alert messages (and I will start using it today, methinks).
What I was thinking of would work for adjunct programs that
aren't started by mon, and thus can't inherit environment variables.
So, imagine again a mon.cf:
watch something
service ftp
interval 5m
monitor ftp.monitor
var url2fix "http://www.example.com/network/doc/helpdesk/ftp.fix.html";
And then an external program, like mon.cgi, could fetch this value:
$c = new Mon::Client ( host => $monhost, port => $monport, );
my %opstatus = $c->list_failures();
if (exists($opstatus{'something'}{'ftp'}{'url2fix'}))
{
print "Read this to fix the problem: ";
print $opstatus{'something}{'ftp'}{'url2fix'};
}
-- Ed
