ACKINFO.CGI(1)

📦 version 4.3.30, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

🎀 ackinfo.cgi(1) · General Commands Manual 🎀

Hiii bestie, this is the manual page for ackinfo.cgi(1) and it is lowkey iconic 💖

✨ NAME ✨

ackinfo.cgi is the Xymon CGI script that lets you acknowledge alerts 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

ackinfo.cgi

That's the whole thing, no extra flags up front, very clean 🦋

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Okay so ackinfo.cgi gets invoked as a CGI script through the ackinfo.sh CGI wrapper 🧚

Its whole purpose is acknowledging an alert on the Xymon "Critical Systems" view, the one generated by criticalview.cgi(1) 👑 The staff looking at that view can acknowledge alerts with a "Level 1" alert, and that removes the alert from the Critical Systems view. It's giving main character energy, ngl 💅

🙈 Heads up, bestie: the Level 1 alert generated by ackinfo.cgi does NOT stop alerts from being sent!

In a future version of Xymon (after Xymon 4.2), this utility is also going to be used for acknowledging alerts at other levels 🌈

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • --level=NUMBER — sets the acknowledgment level. This is usually used to force one specific level, like a level 1 acknowledge when it's called from the Critical Systems view 🌸
  • --validity=TIME — sets the validity of the acknowledgment. By default this gets pulled from the CGI parameters the user sends in 💜
  • --sender=STRING — logs STRING as the sender of the acknowledgment. By default it's taken from the loginname of the webuser who sent the acknowledgment 🍓
  • --env=FILENAME — loads the environment defined in FILENAME before the CGI script runs ✨
  • --area=NAME — loads environment variables for a specific area. NB: if you use this one, it must appear before any --env=FILENAME option! ⚠️
  • --debug — turns on debugging output 🔥

✨ ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES ✨

XYMONHOME

This one helps locate the template files used to build the generated web pages 🧚

QUERY_STRING

This one holds the parameters for the CGI script 🫶

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

Check out criticalview.cgi(1) and xymon(7) for more Xymon goodness 🦋

That's the whole tea, bestie! This page was written for Xymon Version 4.3.30, dated 4 Sep 2019, so you're officially up to speed. Go acknowledge those alerts like the Unix queen you are 👑💖🌈

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