As a newbie to RT scrip development, I have a question about best practice. We are dropping our pager system in favor of AlarmPoint (now XMatters). I have developed a simple script which identifies the RT queue in which a ticket is created, and then calls the AlarmPoint message daemon (running on the same linux box as RT) with parameters extracted from the TicketObj. Everything works as expected. My question is about where in the web-interface presented by RT for building scrips is the best place for my "action". Does it belong in the "Custom Action Preparation" section, or the "Custom Action Cleanup" section?

Here is the very simple code:

Custom Condition:

if ($self->TransactionObj->Type eq 'Create' &&
   ($self->TicketObj->QueueObj->Name eq "ClusterSupport" ||
    $self->TicketObj->QueueObj->Name eq "StorageSupport"))
{
     return(1);
   } else {
     return(undef);
}

Custom Action preparation:

1;

Custom Cleanup:

{
  my $myQueueName = '';
  my $myQueue   = $self->TicketObj->QueueObj->Name;
  my $myId           = $self->TicketObj->EffectiveId;
  my $mySubject  = $self->TicketObj->Subject;

  if ($myQueue eq "ClusterSupport")
  {
     $myQueueName = "Cluster Group";
  } else {
     $myQueueName = "Storage Group";
  }

my $binary = '/home/alarmpoint/alarmpointsystems/integrationagent/ bin/APClient.bin'; system($binary, '--map-data', 'vanderbilt', $myQueueName, $mySubject, 'RT', "RT $myId");

  1;
}

So, given that this works just fine, does the code in "cleanup" actually belong in "preparation?"

TIA

Charles

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