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Conference csc32::consolemanager

Title:POLYCENTER Console Manager
Notice:Kits, Scans, Docs on CSC32:: as PCM$KITS:,PCM$DOCS:, PCM$SCANS:
Moderator:CSC32::BUTTERWORTH
Created:Thu Aug 06 1992
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1541
Total number of notes:6564

1005.0. "Limit on characters passed from event to action?" by CSC32::TANTS () Mon Sep 25 1995 13:11

    Is there a limit to the number of characters that can be passed from an
    event to an action?  A customer has an action defined to page his
    alphanumeric pager on certain events, and is finding that, since
    upgrading from VCS to PCM 1.5 (+ the MUP) he is only getting the first
    30 characters of the text of the event.  He claims he used to get quite
    a bit more then that.
    
    I'd really appreciate any answers on this one today if possible.
    Pointers to documentation for him would be even better...
    
    Thanks
    Becki Tants
    sysmgt-c
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1005.1CSC32::BUTTERWORTHGun Control is a steady hand.Mon Oct 09 1995 12:247
    No limit. WHat is happening is that the event is triggering on the last
    character in the pattern and before the end of line. There is a STARS
    article on this that descibes how to change the event definition so
    that they'll get the whole line.
    
    Regs,
      Dan
1005.2Same problem ?EVTW12::WILLAYWed Sep 11 1996 07:3018
Hy,

.1  >>>WHat is happening is that the event is triggering on the last
    >>>character in the pattern and before the end of line. There is a STARS
    >>>article on this that descibes how to change the event definition so
    >>>that they'll get the whole line.


 I Think I experiment the same problem with PCM 1.6-119 (Under VMS 6.2). I
created an event to trigger an action when any line beginning with "YR" string
is broadcasted on a console.
 My problem is that the event is always well detected, the filter triggered
correctly the associated action, but very often the field "Text", sent as
parameter, is truncated.

 I didn't find any clue in STARS, Could somebody help me,
 Thanks a lot,
 Thierry Willay / OMS Evry France
1005.3CSC32::BUTTERWORTHGun Control is a steady hand.Wed Sep 11 1996 13:4419
    The article will indeed answer your question. The text is not being
    truncated, the event is being detected *before* the end of line has
    been detected by PCM. PCM is very quick when it comes to event
    detection. What you can do is change your event type from Literal
    to Regular expression as well as modify the text to scan for as
    follows:
    
    Instead of the "YR" string you should use
    
    YR*^
    
    This tells PCM to match on the string YR followed by any combination of
    characters followed by a LF, CR or FF character. In other words, the
    event won;t trigger until the entire line of text has been read.
    
    Again, read the article. This is not a bug.
    
    Regs,
       Dan
1005.4It's the solutionEVTW12::WILLAYThu Sep 12 1996 04:076
Hy Dan,

Thanks a lot for your help. I modified my event description with your
indications. Now everything works fine.

Thierry