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NAME

       bb-ack.cgi - Xymon CGI script to acknowledge alerts

SYNOPSIS

       bb-ack.cgi?ACTION=action&NUMBER=acknum&DELAY=validity&MESSAGE=text

DESCRIPTION

       bb-ack.cgi is invoked as a CGI script via the bb-ack.sh CGI wrapper.

       bb-ack.cgi  is  passed  a  QUERY_STRING  environment  variable with the
       ACTION, NUMBER, DELAY and MESSAGE parameters.

PARAMETERS

       ACTION is the action to perform. The only supported action is "Ack"  to
       acknowledge an alert.

       NUMBER  is  the number identifying the host/service to be acknowledged.
       It is included in all alert-messages sent out by Xymon.

       DELAY is the time (in minutes) that the acknowledge is valid.

       MESSAGE is an optional text which will be  shown  on  the  status  page
       while  the  acknowledgment is active. You can use it to e.g. tell users
       not to contact you about the problem, or inform them when  the  problem
       is expected to be resolved.

OPTIONS

       --no-pin
              bb-ack.cgi   normally   requires   the   user   to   enter   the
              acknowledgment code received in an alert message. If you run  it
              with  this  option,  the  user  will  instead  get a list of the
              current non-green statuses,  and  he  may  send  an  acknowledge
              without knowing the code.

       --no-cookies
              Normally,  bb-ack.cgi  uses  a  cookie  sent  by  the browser to
              initially filter the list of hosts presented.  If  this  is  not
              desired,  you  can turn off this behaviour by calling bb-ack.cgi
              with the --no-cookies option. This would normally be  placed  in
              the CGI_ACK_OPTS setting in hobbitcgi.cfg(5)

       --env=FILENAME
              Loads  the  environment defined in FILENAME before executing the
              CGI script.

       --debug
              Enables debugging output.

FILES

       $BBHOME/web/acknowledge_header
              HTML header file for the generated web page

       $BBHOME/web/acknowledge_footer
              HTML footer file for the generated web page

       $BBHOME/web/acknowledge_form
              Query  form  displayed  when  bb-ack.cgi  is  called   with   no
              parameters.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       BBHOME Used to locate the template files for the generated web pages.

       QUERY_STRING
              Contains the parameters for the CGI script.

BUGS

       When  using  alternate  pagesets,  hosts  will  only  show  up  on  the
       acknowledgment page if this is accessed from the primary page in  which
       they  are  defined.  So  if you have hosts on multiple pages, they will
       only be visible for acknowledging from their main  page  which  is  not
       what you would expect.

SEE ALSO

       bbgen(1), bb-hosts(5), hobbitserver.cfg(5)