[Xymon] Corrupted data in BBALPHAMSG?

[David Baldwin]

John,

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.

What version of Xymon are you using?

David.
>
> 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). 
>
>  
>
> Within my email script all I am doing is ‘echo “$BBALPHAMSG” >tmpfile’.
>
>  
>
> Xymon Server: Ubuntu 10.04
>
> Client (in this instance): W2k3 Server
>
>  
>
> 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):
>
>  
>
> [disk]
>
> Filesystem     1K-blocks     Used       Avail    Capacity   
> Mounted      Summary(Total\Avail)
>
> C               20241899   11256291    8985608    55%      
> /FIXED/C        19.31gb\8.58gb
>
> D              856979392  641409136  215570256    74%      
> /FIXED/D        817.28gb\205.59gb
>
> F              179205040   54697624  124507416    30%      
> /FIXED/F        170.92gb\118.75gb
>
> G              179205072  174737304    4467768    97%      
> /FIXED/G        170.92gb\4.26gb
>
> H              179205072  174778264    4426808    97%      
> /FIXED/H        170.92gb\4.22gb
>
> I              176064364  129088448   46975916    73%      
> /FIXED/I        167.92gb\44.81gb
>
> J             1756490840   41785572 1714705268     2%      
> /FIXED/J        1.65tb\1.61tb
>
> O              976771068      95844  976675224     0%      
> /FIXED/O        931.53gb\931.44gb
>
>  
>
> But then when I use BBALPHAMSG within an email script there can be odd
> corruption:
>
>  
>
> yellow Wed Jul 27 09:24:50 2011 - Filesystems NOT ok
>
> &yellow G (97% used) has reached the WARNING level (97%)
>
> &yellow H (97% used) has reached the WARNING level (97%)
>
>  
>
> Filesystem     1K-blocks     Used       Avail    Capacity   
> Mounted      Summary(Total\Avail)
>
> C               20241899   11256291    8985608    55%      
> /FIXED/C        19.31gb\8.58gb
>
> D              856979392  641409136  215570256    74%      
> /FIXED/D        817.28gb<85>.59gb
>
> F              179205040   54697624  124507416    30%      
> /FIXED/F        170.92gb    8.75gb
>
> G              179205072  174737304    4467768    97%      
> /FIXED/G        170.92gb^D.26gb
>
> H              179205072  174778264    4426808    97%      
> /FIXED/H        170.92gb^D.22gb
>
> I              176064364  129088448   46975916    73%      
> /FIXED/I        167.92gb$.81gb
>
> J             1756490840   41785572 1714705268     2%      
> /FIXED/J        1.65tb^A.61tb
>
> O              976771068      95844  976675224     0%      
> /FIXED/O        931.53gb\931.44gb
>
>  
>
> See http://xymonserver/xymon-cgi/svcstatus.sh?HOST=ServerA&SERVICE=disk
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
>
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