[Xymon] Externals Script

[Jeremy Laidman]

Perhaps something like this?

C:\>set TEST=^<setting name="hostname" value="servername.companyname" /^>
C:\>for /f "tokens=1,2,3 delims=/=" %a in ("%TEST%") do set HNa=%~c && set
HN=%HNa:"=%
C:\>echo %HN%
servername.companyname

J


On 10 February 2015 at 11:27, John Tullis <john at executech.com> wrote:

> I am managing a XYMON server of about 500 servers across different
> locations and networks. We've made the setup work well but I'm not starting
> to experiment with externals scripts. Because our network is so spread out,
> we have configured each host to have a unique hostname set up in the config
> file on each host using the pattern: servername.companyname.  This isn't an
> issue until I need to feed the hostname back to the server in a custom
> script. Is there anything in bbwin.exe that will let me query for the
> hostname set in the .\etc\bbwin.cfg file and spit it out somewhere?
>
> I've also found a way to use findstr to look for the hostname line in the
> file but am having trouble using batch to remove everything from the line
> than just the hostname. It's returning  <setting name="hostname"
> value="servername.companyname" /> but I don't have enough experience to
> narrow it down any further than that (primarily through batch files).
>
> Any advice would be extremely helpful.
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
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