WIN2k Blat

[MAJBlaine]

I've a problem with my NNM (6.2) win2K server passing variables incorrectly.

When an event occurs, I should be getting an IP address, device names, etc passed to my email and pager, but instead I'm get $2, $3, etc...

I'm using Blat to pass the information to the mail server (First Class), which is getting there, its just that my variables are not resolving.

Advice?

 

[nbowden]

What are you putting in the event action field ?

Can you show the exact syntax you are using ?

Nigel.

(As an alternative, you could try :

http://www.nbnetworks.co.uk/nnm/email_alert.htm

if you can't get this going)

 

[MAJBlaine]

Thanks Nigel.

Someone else set this up, so I'm having to reverse engineer it. He was using a command which I still do not understand how he got it to work:
blat c:\scripts\node_down -t <email adddr> &quot;$2&quot;

In this case node_down is a renamed version of email_alert.pl. What the -t switch does, I never did figure out.

My fix:
I took the quotes off the $2 and reconfigured it as such:
perl c:\scripts\node_down.pl $2 $3 $5 <email addr>

Blaine