[hobbit] Slightly OT: External Perl Script

Wed Mar 1 15:41:28 CET 2006

How about

$LINE = "status $hostname.ups $color $now - some Text if you want it
$msg";

system("/path/to/bb $bbhost \"$LINE\" &")

That's what I do

-----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

All,

This may be slightly off topic, but I figured that there is someone here

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.

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

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.

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.

sub sendupdates {

$msg = <<EOM;

<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>

    <tr>

      <th align=\"center\">

      <hr width=\"100%\"></th>

    </tr>

< snip other HTML >

</center>

</body>

</html>

EOM

my $now = localtime($^T) . "\n";

if ($debug eq "yes"){

        print "------------------- Time Stamp --------------------\n";

        print "Time Stamp: $now\n";

        print "------------------- HTML Output -------------------\n";

        print $msg;

}

system("$bb $bbhost \"status ${bbhostname}.ups $color $now ${msg}\"");

}

The error messages that our output to the screen give the following:

bb: incorrect number of arguments

Format: <IP-ADDR> <DATA>

sh: line 5: width:: command not found

sh: line 13: >

then there are also a lot of the following messages:

sh: line 14: > </div>

      <table id=table2 style=width:: No such file or directory

sh: line 14: height:: command not found

sh: line 17: >

        <tbody>

          <tr>

            <th width=267style=font-weight:: command not found

sh: line 17: text-align:: command not found

sh: line 18: >Hostname:</th>

Thanks in advance for any help.

Robert Taylor 

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