NAME

       acknowledge.cgi - Xymon CGI script to acknowledge alerts

SYNOPSIS

       acknowledge.cgi?ACTION=action&NUMBER=acknum&DELAY=validity&MESSAGE=text

DESCRIPTION

       acknowledge.cgi is invoked as a CGI script via the acknowledge.sh CGI wrapper.

       acknowledge.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
              acknowledge.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, acknowledge.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 acknowledge.cgi with the --no-cookies option. This would normally be placed
              in the CGI_ACK_OPTS setting in cgioptions.cfg(5)

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

       --debug
              Enables debugging output.

FILES

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

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

       $XYMONHOME/web/acknowledge_form
              Query form displayed when acknowledge.cgi is called with no parameters.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       XYMONHOME
              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

       xymongen(1), hosts.cfg(5), xymonserver.cfg(5)