[hobbit] Slightly OT: External Perl Script

Wed Mar 1 19:02:16 CET 2006

I've got a perl module that emulates the bb binary, if anybody
is interested.

-Eric 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: FARRIOR, Andy [mailto:Andy.Farrior at victoriacollege.edu] 
> Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 11:23 AM
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: RE: [hobbit] Slightly OT: External Perl Script
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>  
> ARGH!  replied to the wrong person....   must drink more coffee....
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> that'd do it to.  I know his $msg had a bunch of quotes in it 
> and was killing the shell.
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> again, sorry about that.
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> andy
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> From: Sherman, Larry, GCM [mailto:Larry.Sherman at rbsgc.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 8:41 AM
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: RE: [hobbit] Slightly OT: External Perl Script
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> How about
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> $LINE = "status $hostname.ups $color $now - some Text if you 
> want it $msg";
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> system("/path/to/bb $bbhost \"$LINE\" &")
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> That's what I do
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Taylor, Robert [mailto:Robert.Taylor at HendrickAuto.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 9:24 AM
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: [hobbit] Slightly OT: External Perl Script
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> All,
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> This may be slightly off topic, but I figured that there is 
> someone here
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> 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.
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>  
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> 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
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> 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.
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>  
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> 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.
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> sub sendupdates {
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> $msg = <<EOM;
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> <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>
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>     <tr>
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>       <th align=\"center\">
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>       <hr width=\"100%\"></th>
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>     </tr>
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>  
> 
> < snip other HTML >
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> </center>
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> </body>
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> </html>
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> EOM
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> my $now = localtime($^T) . "\n";
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> if ($debug eq "yes"){
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>         print "------------------- Time Stamp --------------------\n";
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>         print "Time Stamp: $now\n";
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>         print "------------------- HTML Output -------------------\n";
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>         print $msg;
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> }
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> system("$bb $bbhost \"status ${bbhostname}.ups $color $now ${msg}\"");
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> }
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> The error messages that our output to the screen give the following:
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> bb: incorrect number of arguments
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> Format: <IP-ADDR> <DATA>
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> sh: line 5: width:: command not found
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> sh: line 13: >
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> then there are also a lot of the following messages:
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>  
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> sh: line 14: > </div>
> 
>       <table id=table2 style=width:: No such file or directory
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> sh: line 14: height:: command not found
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> sh: line 17: >
> 
>         <tbody>
> 
>           <tr>
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>             <th width=267style=font-weight:: command not found
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> sh: line 17: text-align:: command not found
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> sh: line 18: >Hostname:</th>
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> Thanks in advance for any help.
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> 
> Robert Taylor 
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