Conference csc32::consolemanager

Olli,

  Can you post your action definition, it would help me to understand
  your problem (just export the database and cut out the ADD_ACTION
  part for your action).

  It is possible that your action does not get the text (that is the
  actual line of context, not the text as defined in the event record)
  because the daemon has not flushed out the text to disk quickly
  enough for the ens daemon to read it from the log file.

Cheers,
Phil

    
    
    My event text is "DCM ALL:"
    After more testing  I noticed that if the event line is longer
    the text line is passed to action routine. Some times text is only
    partially passed to action routine. Probably your explanation
    explains this. Is there any way to make deamon to flaush text to disk
    quicker? This is very critical for us.
    
    	-Olli                         
    

  Changing the event text to regular expression and adding *^ to the end
  of the text may help, this will cause the event to only be detected
  after the following newline, so, the whole of the line should have been
  flushed to disk by the time the action routine/ens has got it.

Cheers,
Phil

    
    Regular expression seems to help. But I also had for testing
    reasons context start 1 and context count 2. I changed start to
    0 and count to 1. Then I was able to get TEXT to action routine
    BUT csh script didn't work.
    It seems that there is a problem using csh instead of sh.
    After I changed to sh from csh script works.  Should we
    used sh only?
    
    Other problem is to pass event text containing $ to action script
    I am sending PSW event to opa0: like
    
    PSW ALL:~NEW~EXT~NODE1~10-AUG NODE1 Disk NODE1$DKA200 is near full...
    
    Now $DKA200 string doesn't get to script. 
    
    It seems that CM is using "-around the text string. If '-is used
    then script will get the whole string. 
    
    -Olli
    

Olli,

>>    Regular expression seems to help. But I also had for testing
>>    reasons context start 1 and context count 2. I changed start to
>>    0 and count to 1. Then I was able to get TEXT to action routine
>>    BUT csh script didn't work.
>>    It seems that there is a problem using csh instead of sh.
>>    After I changed to sh from csh script works.  Should we
>>    used sh only?

  We simply perform a system() call to invoke the action routines, so it will
  probably default to sh as that is normally the default for root (the account
  cm is started up in), you could try changing root to use csh in /etc/passwd,
  although I dont know what the impact of this will be on the rest of the
  system, however, it should work with csh if you put the #! /bin/csh at the
  start of the procedure (If it isnt, I dont know why).

>>    Other problem is to pass event text containing $ to action script
>>    I am sending PSW event to opa0: like
>>    
>>    PSW ALL:~NEW~EXT~NODE1~10-AUG NODE1 Disk NODE1$DKA200 is near full...
>>    
>>    Now $DKA200 string doesn't get to script. 
>>    
>>    It seems that CM is using "-around the text string. If '-is used
>>    then script will get the whole string.

  For the next release, on ULTRIX (does this apply to OSF too?), I will change
  the quoting to use a ' instead of the ", what I think it is doing here is a
  substitute for the symbol $DKA200, which of course doesnt exist, so sh is
  replacing it will a blank.

Cheers,
Phil

    
    
    I have #! /bin/csh or #! /bin/sh at start of the script.
    The test command was simple 
    
    /bin/echo "***$1***$2***$3**" >> /var/cm/logs/test.log
    
    When sh was used script work but not with csh
    
    cm -d incicated action counter was increased when test event was sent
    to one console line.
    
    Maybe someone else could try this also.
    
    Is there some log file/error file some where I could check?
    
    -Olli
    
    
    
    
    

    
    re .5
    
>  For the next release, on ULTRIX (does this apply to OSF too?), I will change
>  the quoting to use a ' instead of the ", 
    
    It does apply to OSF too.
    
    -Olli