Alarm: Cmd line tool to 'talk' for testing kafka and annunciations

... or to send an annunciation like "I'm about to restart the alarm
server" to operators

Author: kasemir

app/alarm/examples/talk.sh

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+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# Send talk message
+
+if [ $# -ne 2 ]
+then
+    echo "Usage: talk.sh Accelerator Message"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+topic="$1"
+text="$2"
+
+kafka/bin/kafka-console-producer.sh --broker-list localhost:9092 --property 'parse.key=true' --property key.separator=" : "  --topic ${topic}Talk <<END
+talk:/$topic/pv : {"severity":"MAJOR", "standout":true, "talk":"$text"}
+END
+
+