Specifications

Chapter 8: Alerts

4. Select the action from the list.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<manifest xmlns="http://www.hyper9.com/ws"

xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">

<type>ALERT</type>

<uniqueId>alert-test</uniqueId>

<name>Log Alert Summary</name>

<description>Logs a summary of this alert's firing details to a

file</description>

<command>$MANIFEST_HOME/logAlert.pl</command>

</manifest>

For this example, a script was customized to run as the command, called

logAlert.pl. There are two command elements. Use a new element for every

time you have white space in your arguments.

Save the following code in the same data/content/externalActions folder as

logAlert.pl. Because it is saved in the same folder as the manifest, the

$MANIFEST_HOME variable from the previous manifest is used to describe its path.

#!/usr/bin/perl

# Author: Ryan Kruse

# Description: Designed to be called through the Hyper9 external actions

framework,

# this script simply uses the SOAP API to retrieve an Alert and log its

values to a file

use strict;

use Hyper9::Client;

use Getopt::Long;

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