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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Parsing a $VARIABLE within a script. Post 302706957 by dlundwall on Thursday 27th of September 2012 06:40:45 PM

09-27-2012

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Answers to your questions.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Don Cragun

In the first message you said you want to set SEV to the value following the ": " on a line starting with "Severity: ".

In the last message you said you want the value of $SI printed following "Server Instance Error: ", but the error message you want this to come from had a line: Server Instance: 31415, but nothing with " Error" anywhere in the message.

I will ask again: Given the following event message text:

Code:

Sept 21, 2012 8:21:55 PM MDT - Device Main_Server_01 of type Host_Server is no longer responding to requests.  This condition has persisted for more than 3 minutes.
 
Alert Code: Danger
Server Instance: 31415
Severity: Critical

exactly what output do you want to be produced as a result of processing this message?

And, is there always an empty line as the 2nd line of every event message?

First question: I would want to know how to pull out any of the alert attributes, say Severity: Critical or Alert Code: Danger.

So I guess the actual data of "Danger" or "Critical" is what I am after. Please note that I am dealing with 40,000+ different event files, which means that there is the potential of 40,000 + different requirements.... In reality there is a lot less, but the point is, there is not a default or standard event file. I just pulled one out at random.

Second question: Typically there is a blank line on the 2nd line... but that rule isn't 100% followed. The greatest share of the event files that I deal with do have the space between the top line and the detail lines below it.

thanks so much for taking time in helping me out!!!!!

dlundwall

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