Sanitizing data sent via AlarmNotifier

[Dganit Reshef]

Hi everyone,

We're running Spectrum on Windows Server. 
When a Set/Update/Clear alarm is raised via Alarm Notifier, we use curl for Windows to send the alarm via HTTP/HTTPS to a separate system. We need to sanitize certain characters from the alarm before sending via curl, since we've noticed that certain escape characters such as '\' can break the connection to the separate system.

Is there anyway to easily sanitize certain characters from an alarm before Alarm Notifier sends it on its way? Perhaps within curl or perhaps via a command within the Set/Update/Clear scripts?

Thanks!

[Marcelo Zacchi]

Hi Dganit,

You can use many different shell tools to address that issue.
This is an example to replace the '\' character for '_' in a variable in SetSecript:

VARIABLE="FOO\BAR"
VARIABLE="${VARIABLE//\\/_}"

Hope it helps.

Regards,

------------------------------
Marcelo Zacchi
CA Spectrum consultant
Nets Denmark
------------------------------

[Dganit Reshef]

Fantastic Marcelo, thanks.