RE: [hobbit] trouble with SCRIPT directive

["Hubbard, Greg L" <greg.hubbard (at) eds.com>]

Kevin,
 
The "simplest" way around this problem is not to try to embed a trapgen
call into the script directive, but to write a wrapper script that will
accept whatever arguments that SCRIPT sends, and then provides any
format conversion, etc. needed before calling trapgen (or any other
program).  Seems like I had to grab a lot of info out of environment
variables when I wrote one of these a year or so ago, so you would be
extremely lucky if you could do it all in one step.
 
GLH


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	From: kevin [mailto:khanrahan (at) charter.net] 
	Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2008 10:38 AM
	To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
	Subject: [hobbit] trouble with SCRIPT directive
	
	

	Hi all,

	 

	This might seem long winded but I wanted to describe the problem
in detail  and see if anyone could help please.

	 

	 I am trying to make use of the SCRIPT function in
hobbit-alerts.cfg I am trying to send snmp traps from hobbit to another
receiver using a utility called trapgen and I think the syntax of SCRIPT
and trapgen are getting in each others way. 

	 

	SCRIPT seems to have this syntax:

	 

	SCRIPT  <program>  <recipient>  <options>

	 

	And trapgen has this syntax:

	 

	trapgen  -d  destination   <options>

	 

	So, when I try to assemble it, it has this form:

	 

	SCRIPT  /home/hobbit/server/ext/trapgen -d 10.10.0.13 <options>

	 

	I get an error in the page.log that says trapgen needs at least
a destination specified as:

	 

	trapgen -d IPADDRESS   ......but it DOES have a destination!!!

	 

	It seems that the SCRIPT directive is intercepting the "-d
IPADDRESS" and interpreting it as it's own "recipient" directive.??

	 

	Is there a way around this? Is there a way to ignore the
"recipient" directive using SCRIPT?

	 

	Thanks for any ideas

	 

	KEvin