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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>That is exactly what I was thinking.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Xymon version 4.3.0<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>In my script I get the results as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='color:#1F497D'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='color:#1F497D'>Echo $BBALPHAMSG (everything is fine – except for formatting which is what I am trying to correct)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='color:#1F497D'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='color:#1F497D'>Echo “$BBALPHAMSG” >file (message is written to file and formatting is as I would like but the “\*” characters are converted as described below)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='color:#1F497D'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='color:#1F497D'>Echo $BBALPHAMSG >file (same as above but message is not formatted)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I have tried to pipe both of these through sed before sending to the file but that still isn’t working as the characters are converted prior to the pipe.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>There has got to be a way that I can write these to a file but I am just missing something simple.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks,</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>John</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:silver'>_____________________________________________________________________</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>John Rothlisberger<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Senior Analyst <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Application & Technology Integration <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Implementation & Managed Services for Business Process Outsourcing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>IT Strategy, Infrastructure & Security - Technology Growth Platform<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Accenture<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>312.693.3136 office<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:silver'>_____________________________________________________________________</span><span style='color:#1F497D'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> David Baldwin [mailto:david.baldwin@ausport.gov.au] <br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, July 27, 2011 5:10 PM<br><b>To:</b> Rothlisberger, John R.<br><b>Cc:</b> xymon@xymon.com<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Xymon] Corrupted data in BBALPHAMSG?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>John,<br><br>The "corrupted characters" you are seeing are the ASCII characters corresponding to the number after the \ character. e.g. \4 -> ^D, \44 -> $, etc. It looks like the string is being passed to something like a string formatting function (e.g. sprintf) without being properly quoted to escape '\' characters.<br><br>What version of Xymon are you using?<br><br>David.<br><br><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Has anyone noticed what appears to be corruption in BBALPHAMSG? I have only noticed this behavior (so far) on disk checks and it always follows the backslash between the Total Space and Available Space. It also seems to be consistent from host to host (ex. The host below will have the same corruption for each disk check other hosts may show slightly different characters but not all hosts exhibit errors). <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Within my email script all I am doing is ‘echo “$BBALPHAMSG” >tmpfile’.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Xymon Server: Ubuntu 10.04<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Client (in this instance): W2k3 Server<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The actual client data appears to be just as expected with no odd characters (this is pulled from the “Client data” link on the Xymon page):<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>[disk]</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted Summary(Total\Avail)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>C 20241899 11256291 8985608 55% /FIXED/C 19.31gb\8.58gb</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>D 856979392 641409136 215570256 74% /FIXED/D 817.28gb\205.59gb</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>F 179205040 54697624 124507416 30% /FIXED/F 170.92gb\118.75gb</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>G 179205072 174737304 4467768 97% /FIXED/G 170.92gb\4.26gb</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>H 179205072 174778264 4426808 97% /FIXED/H 170.92gb\4.22gb</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>I 176064364 129088448 46975916 73% /FIXED/I 167.92gb\44.81gb</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>J 1756490840 41785572 1714705268 2% /FIXED/J 1.65tb\1.61tb</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>O 976771068 95844 976675224 0% /FIXED/O 931.53gb\931.44gb</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>But then when I use BBALPHAMSG within an email script there can be odd corruption:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New ;","serif"'>yellow Wed Jul 27 09:24:50 2011 - Filesystems NOT ok</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New ;","serif"'>&yellow G (97% used) has reached the WARNING level (97%)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New ;","serif"'>&yellow H (97% used) has reached the WARNING level (97%)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New ;","serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New ;","serif"'>Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted Summary(Total\Avail)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New ;","serif"'>C 20241899 11256291 8985608 55% /FIXED/C 19.31gb\8.58gb</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New ;","serif"'>D 856979392 641409136 215570256 74% /FIXED/D 817.28gb<span style='background:yellow'><85></span>.59gb</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New ;","serif"'>F 179205040 54697624 124507416 30% /FIXED/F 170.92gb <span style='background:yellow'>8</span>.75gb</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New ;","serif"'>G 179205072 174737304 4467768 97% /FIXED/G 170.92gb<span style='background:yellow'>^D</span>.26gb</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New ;","serif"'>H 179205072 174778264 4426808 97% /FIXED/H 170.92gb<span style='background:yellow'>^D</span>.22gb</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New ;","serif"'>I 176064364 129088448 46975916 73% /FIXED/I 167.92gb<span style='background:yellow'>$</span>.81gb</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New ;","serif"'>J 1756490840 41785572 1714705268 2% /FIXED/J 1.65tb<span style='background:yellow'>^A</span>.61tb</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New ;","serif"'>O 976771068 95844 976675224 0% /FIXED/O 931.53gb\931.44gb</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New ;","serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New ;","serif"'>See <a href="http://xymonserver/xymon-cgi/svcstatus.sh?HOST=ServerA&SERVICE=disk">http://xymonserver/xymon-cgi/svcstatus.sh?HOST=ServerA&SERVICE=disk</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Thanks,</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman , serif ;","serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>John</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman , serif ;","serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:silver'>_____________________________________________________________________</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman , serif ;","serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>John Rothlisberger</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Senior Analyst </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Application & Technology Integration </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Implementation & Managed Services for Business Process Outsourcing</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>IT Strategy, Infrastructure & Security - Technology Growth Platform</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Accenture</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>312.693.3136 office</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:silver'>_____________________________________________________________________</span> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:gray'>This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged, proprietary, or otherwise private information. 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Any other use of the email by you is prohibited.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><br><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><pre>-- <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>David Baldwin - Assistant Director, Infrastructure (acting)<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Information and Communication Technology Services<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Australian Sports Commission <a href="http://ausport.gov.au">http://ausport.gov.au</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Tel 02 62147830 Fax 02 62141830 PO Box 176 Belconnen ACT 2616<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="mailto:david.baldwin@ausport.gov.au">david.baldwin@ausport.gov.au</a> Leverrier Street Bruce ACT 2617<o:p></o:p></pre><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Keep up to date with what's happening in Australian sport visit <a href="http://www.ausport.gov.au">www.ausport.gov.au</a> <br><br></span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>This message is intended for the addressee named and may contain confidential and privileged information. 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