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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0D13FF;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Hi Steve<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0D13FF;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0D13FF;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Here’s an example from one of my scripts. I’ve changed the names, nothing else. As I said, there is no requirement for any quoting,
special spacing etc. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0D13FF;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0D13FF;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Everything after “green+30m” constitutes the message and is displayed on the page in Xymon. Note that Xymon builds the page using this
as the content so no need for html, body etc tags. If you want to see roughly what it looks like, copy the below from “green” up to “Zak” to a file e.g. test.html and browse it (the main difference is that this is intended for use on a black background so
the colours may look odd on white).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0D13FF;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0D13FF;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">green+30m XIO status as at 14-Jul-2016 14:53 (updated approx every 10 minutes)
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0D13FF;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0D13FF;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"></pre><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0D13FF;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">.datagrid table { border-collapse: collapse; text-align: left; width: 100%; }
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0D13FF;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">.datagrid {font: normal 12px/150% Times New Roman, Times, serif; overflow: hidden; border: 1px solid #949494; }<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0D13FF;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">.datagrid table td, .datagrid table th { padding: 4px 10px; }<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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1px solid #949494; } <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0D13FF;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">.datagrid table tbody td { color: #d8d8bf; border-left: 1px solid #949494;font-size: 14px;border-bottom: 1px solid #949494;font-weight:
normal; }<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0D13FF;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">.datagrid table tbody .alt td { background: #525252; color: #d8d8bf; }<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0D13FF;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><h3>Clusters</h3><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0D13FF;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><div class="datagrid"><table> <colgroup><col/><col/><col/><col/><col/><col/><col/><col/><col/></colgroup> <tr><th>Status</th><th>name</th><th>Reduction
Ratio</th><th>Compression Factor</th><th>Dedupe Ratio</th><th>Total Memory in use</th><th>Phys Space TB</th><th>Phys Used TB</th><th>UsedPct</th></tr> <tr><td><img src="/gifs/green.gif"></td><td>CLUSTER1</td><td>1.0:1</td><td>1.0:1</td><td>1.0:1</td><td>0%</td><td>15.24</td><td>0</td><td>0</td></tr>
</table></div><h3>Volumes</h3><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0D13FF;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><div class="datagrid"><table> <colgroup><col/><col/><col/><col/></colgroup> <tr><th>Cluster Name</th><th>Name</th><th>Average Latency</th><th>Provisioned
Size GB</th></tr> <tr><td>CLUSTER1</td><td>NAME1</td><td>0</td><td>10</td></tr> <tr><td>CLUSTER1</td><td>NAME2</td><td>0</td><td>2</td></tr> <tr><td>CLUSTER1</td><td>NAME3</td><td>0</td><td>10</td></tr> </table></div><p>Script was run on REDACTED. Script took
0.02 minutes to run.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0D13FF;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0D13FF">Zak
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0D13FF"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0D13FF;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Steve Brown [mailto:sgb@pics.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> 29 June 2017 14:36<br>
<b>To:</b> Beck, Zak <zak.beck@accenture.com>; David Boyer <davieb@gmail.com><br>
<b>Cc:</b> xymon@xymon.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [External] RE: [Xymon] xymon-powershell.ps1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I saw the example file in the documentation but don’t find it helpful. It is far too simple and what I have is much more complex. I was hoping to
see an example to show the quoting, spacing, and special characters associated with an html table.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Thanks anyway<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Steve<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Beck, Zak [<a href="mailto:zak.beck@accenture.com">mailto:zak.beck@accenture.com</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, June 29, 2017 8:16 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Steve Brown <<a href="mailto:sgb@pics.com">sgb@pics.com</a>>; David Boyer <<a href="mailto:davieb@gmail.com">davieb@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:xymon@xymon.com">xymon@xymon.com</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [Xymon] xymon-powershell.ps1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0D13FF">Hi
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0D13FF"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0D13FF">Group colour is the overall status of the test.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0D13FF"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0D13FF">For example, I may have a test that contains multiple tests, like checking the size of two or three directories. Each of those directories may have a red / yellow
/ green status. The group colour is the overall outer status, for example, if any one of the directory tests has a red status, I may want the group colour to be red.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0D13FF"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0D13FF">This is the example of the content of the file, between the markers ---8<---<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0D13FF"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0D13FF">---8<---<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color:#0D13FF">green 14/01/2016 14:37:07 SERVER1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color:#0D13FF"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color:#0D13FF">&green checking directory extdirtest 'c:\temp' - Rules are <50 and <100 - Actually 5 file(s)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0D13FF">---8<---<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0D13FF"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0D13FF">In this case:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0D13FF"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0D13FF">GROUPCOLOUR = green<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0D13FF">MESSAGE = 14/01/2016 14:37:07 SERVER1… all the way to the end.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0D13FF"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0D13FF">Because it’s a file, the MESSAGE content is taken verbatim – there is no escaping or quoting necessary. The date and time and server name seen in the example
are just part of the message, they are not parsed and are not mandatory – they will be displayed on the test’s page.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0D13FF"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0D13FF">The name of the test is the name of the file.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0D13FF"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0D13FF">Zak
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0D13FF"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Steve Brown [<a href="mailto:sgb@pics.com">mailto:sgb@pics.com</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> 29 June 2017 14:02<br>
<b>To:</b> Beck, Zak <<a href="mailto:zak.beck@accenture.com">zak.beck@accenture.com</a>>; David Boyer <<a href="mailto:davieb@gmail.com">davieb@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:xymon@xymon.com">xymon@xymon.com</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [External] RE: [Xymon] xymon-powershell.ps1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Thanks. I reviewed that yesterday but I didn’t see an example that would be useful. I don’t know what <GROUPCOLOUR> represents. The documentation shows
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">GROUPCOLOUR – red, yellow or green – the colour for the group </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">But that doesn’t tell me what it represents
either. I don’t know what group it refers to. Does it just mean the status of the test? I’m not using BBWin and have never used it. I was trying to use the xymon-powershell.ps1 script but it seems limited. I’m not a windows person. I’m a Linux guy and was
hoping to see an example of this file that would be useful. I was hoping to see the criteria for quoting and different lines. I’ll need to create an example to submit to get permissions to install the Powershell Client and to write files on the server.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Steve<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Beck, Zak [<a href="mailto:zak.beck@accenture.com">mailto:zak.beck@accenture.com</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, June 29, 2017 7:50 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Steve Brown <<a href="mailto:sgb@pics.com">sgb@pics.com</a>>; David Boyer <<a href="mailto:davieb@gmail.com">davieb@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:xymon@xymon.com">xymon@xymon.com</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [Xymon] xymon-powershell.ps1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0D13FF">Hi
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0D13FF"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0D13FF">There’s a section in the doc file for XymonPSClient headed “External data” which describes the file in detail.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0D13FF"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0D13FF">Here’s a copy / paste of the format from that section:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0D13FF"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0D13FF"><GROUPCOLOUR>[+LIFETIME] <MESSAGE><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0D13FF"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0D13FF">GROUPCOLOUR – red, yellow or green – the colour for the group<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0D13FF">+LIFETIME – optional – how long before Xymon should turn the status purple if no further results are received, specified in minutes (but supports 'h', 'd' or
'w' suffix e.g. 5h for 5 hours)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0D13FF">MESSAGE - the message to be displayed. This message can span multiple lines and can include “&colour” e.g. &green / &yellow / &red to display a subtest with
the corresponding coloured GIF.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0D13FF">For example, the external script fsmon supplied with the BBWin source writes external files with the following contents:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color:#0D13FF">green 14/01/2016 14:37:07 [SERVER1]
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="color:#0D13FF">&green checking directory extdirtest 'c:\temp' - Rules are <50 and <100 - Actually 5 file(s)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0D13FF">Here the group colour is green and the subtest colour is also green, no lifetime has been specified so the result will turn purple after the default interval
if no more test results are sent.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0D13FF">Note that you can also do this with BBWin if that’s what you’re using, and the message can include html as per your requirement.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0D13FF">Thanks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Steve Brown [<a href="mailto:sgb@pics.com">mailto:sgb@pics.com</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> 29 June 2017 13:22<br>
<b>To:</b> David Boyer <<a href="mailto:davieb@gmail.com">davieb@gmail.com</a>>; Beck, Zak <<a href="mailto:zak.beck@accenture.com">zak.beck@accenture.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:xymon@xymon.com">xymon@xymon.com</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [External] RE: [Xymon] xymon-powershell.ps1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Thanks I’ll see if I can get permission to install the PowerShell client and create files on the client machine. Can you send me an example of the
file you place in c:\..\..\tmp ?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> David Boyer [<a href="mailto:davieb@gmail.com">mailto:davieb@gmail.com</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, June 28, 2017 10:24 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Beck, Zak <<a href="mailto:zak.beck@accenture.com">zak.beck@accenture.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Steve Brown <<a href="mailto:sgb@pics.com">sgb@pics.com</a>>; <a href="mailto:xymon@xymon.com">
xymon@xymon.com</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Xymon] xymon-powershell.ps1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-US">Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-US">Like Zak said, just write your HTML page to a file then place it in the c:\..\..\tmp and it should be picked up within 5mins. The filename will reflect the test name on the xymon web page.
I have a couple of sched tasks that work this way.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Dave<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 5:06 AM, Beck, Zak <<a href="mailto:zak.beck@accenture.com" target="_blank">zak.beck@accenture.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#0D13FF">Hi</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#0D13FF"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#0D13FF">I’m not familiar with xymon-powershell.ps1, but I don’t see why not, the server certainly supports it (we do it all the time in the Powershell client).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#0D13FF"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#0D13FF">Bear in mind for powershell, the escape character for those double-quotes is backtick (`), as in:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#0D13FF"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#0D13FF">"<table width=`"100%`">"</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#0D13FF"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#0D13FF">You may want to switch to the Windows Powershell client, it allows you to schedule and run external scripts or pick up data from external text files,
so whatever is calling xymon-powershell.ps1 could just write a text file in the correct format to c:\program files\xymon\tmp and it would get sent…</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#0D13FF"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#0D13FF"><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sourceforge.net_p_xymon_code_HEAD_tree_sandbox_WinPSClient_&d=DwMGaQ&c=eIGjsITfXP_y-DLLX0uEHXJvU8nOHrUK8IrwNKOtkVU&r=S-aLwpx-PHBTBMIG_c2JczRC0SfuZCmsiH9Iams25FI&m=txMYPUEjcG94O3HCuRXTGdsKRhVt6Nx1haus2hd2GIU&s=kMea6StIUZTOmvEo98JnLbx0tSHFtZ5Tal_e5M6y6-U&e=" target="_blank">https://sourceforge.net/p/xymon/code/HEAD/tree/sandbox/WinPSClient/</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#0D13FF">Cheers</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#0D13FF">Zak</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Xymon [mailto:<a href="mailto:xymon-bounces@xymon.com" target="_blank">xymon-bounces@xymon.com</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Steve Brown<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 27 June 2017 17:16<br>
<b>To:</b> '<a href="mailto:xymon@xymon.com" target="_blank">xymon@xymon.com</a>' <<a href="mailto:xymon@xymon.com" target="_blank">xymon@xymon.com</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [External] [Xymon] xymon-powershell.ps1</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US">Hi</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US">Is there a way to send an html table through the xymon-powershell.ps1 script?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US">I currently use bb-central where I have a Linux script that runs on the xymon server. I’m able to send the html table with the following</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US">OBJFILE="<iframe name=\"locktbl\" src=\"/hobbit/dba/${RHOST}/${MNAME}-lock.html\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"600\" width=\"1200\"></iframe>"</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US">LINE="status $MACHINE.$TEST $COLOR</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US"> ${OBJFILE} "</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US">$BB $BBDISP "$LINE" #SEND IT TO BBDISPLAY</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US">The status line is very similar to the xymon-powershell.ps1 input
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US">powershell -file xymon-powershell.ps1 %XYMSRV% "status %COMPUTERNAME%.mytest green %DATE% %TIME%" "The status of 'mytest' is 'satisfactory' at %DATE% %TIME%"
"" "here's the last line"</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US">I basically want to replace the "The status of 'mytest' is 'satisfactory' at %DATE% %TIME%" with an html table.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US">Thank you for your help</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-US">Steve</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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