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From: Charles Jones [mailto:user-e86b4aeade4e@xymon.invalid] Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 2:45 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Slightly OT: External Perl Script
If it's short please post it, or a link to it. Isn't all that is needed is to make a TCP connection, or are you completely emulating all of the functions of the bb binary?
-Charles
Schwimmer, Eric E *HS wrote:
I've got a perl module that emulates the bb binary, if anybody
is interested.
-Eric
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From: FARRIOR, Andy [mailto:user-ca324d8ab782@xymon.invalid] Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 11:23 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Slightly OT: External Perl Script
ARGH! replied to the wrong person.... must drink more coffee....
that'd do it to. I know his $msg had a bunch of quotes in it and was killing the shell.
again, sorry about that.
andy
From: Sherman, Larry, GCM [mailto:user-8d9629e8e9c7@xymon.invalid] Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 8:41 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Slightly OT: External Perl Script
How about
$LINE = "status $hostname.ups $color $now - some Text if you want it $msg";
system("/path/to/bb $bbhost \"$LINE\" &")
That's what I do
-----Original Message-----
From: Taylor, Robert [mailto:user-3e97fc7d80fd@xymon.invalid] Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 9:24 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: [hobbit] Slightly OT: External Perl Script
All,
This may be slightly off topic, but I figured that there is someone here
that can help. Over the past weekend I wrote my first Perl script to
replace a number of aging shell scripts that I had. What I have done is
written Perl scripts to query Liebert UPS systems, Netbotz environment
monitors and Juniper SSL VPN appliances. Needless to say I am now a
believer in how much faster Perl is than shell. My scripts dropped from
about almost two minutes to run to 8 seconds.
I can see all of the output when I print to screen so I know that it is
polling everything okay. The problem that I am having is getting Perl
to send this data to Hobbit. It is just a formatting issue as I can
have it send plain text fine, but I am trying to send HTML to create
nice looking status pages. I have looked at previous scripts, but they
all use the BigBrother.pm module and I would like to get this working
without that. I am by no means a programmer but this problem is going
to bother me until I can get it working.
Perhaps someone could provide just a bit of Perl guidance? The portion
of the code that I think it is getting hung up on is the colons in the
HTML, but I am not sure.
sub sendupdates {
$msg = <<EOM;
<html><body><center>
<!-- Created with Version 3 of the Liebert Test Script-->
<table border=\"0\" align=\"center\" id=\"table1\"
style=\"height: 197px; width: 649px;\">
<tbody>
<tr>
<th align=\"center\">
<hr width=\"100%\"></th>
</tr>
< snip other HTML >
</center>
</body>
</html>
EOM
my $now = localtime($^T) . "\n";
if ($debug eq "yes"){
print "------------------- Time Stamp --------------------\n";
print "Time Stamp: $now\n";
print "------------------- HTML Output -------------------\n";
print $msg;
}
system("$bb $bbhost \"status ${bbhostname}.ups $color $now ${msg}\"");
}
The error messages that our output to the screen give the following:
bb: incorrect number of arguments
Format: <IP-ADDR> <DATA>
sh: line 5: width:: command not found
sh: line 13: >
then there are also a lot of the following messages:
sh: line 14: > </div>
<table id=table2 style=width:: No such file or directory
sh: line 14: height:: command not found
sh: line 17: >
<tbody>
<tr>
<th width=267style=font-weight:: command not found
sh: line 17: text-align:: command not found
sh: line 18: >Hostname:</th>
Thanks in advance for any help.
Robert Taylor
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