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Old 09-15-2009
Understanding of a script as a scripting newbie

Hi!

I have the following script and do not understand part of it. I have a very little understanding of scripting.

The script is for Nagios to check the response of fast-com.de. The guy who has written it is no longer in the company.

Code:
#!/bin/sh

PATH=/adm/bin:/bin:/usr/bin
export PATH

. /adm/libexec/nagios/utils.sh

print_help() {
}

print_usage() {
}


status_out=/tmp/sms-status.out
thresh_warn=5000
thresh_crit=15000
host=www.fast-com.de
url=/gsm/status.php


while test -n "$1"; do
  case "$1" in
    --help|-h)
      print_help
      exit $STATE_OK
      ;;
    --version|-V)
      print_revision
      exit $STATE_OK
      ;;
    --warning|-w)
      thresh_warn=$2
      shift
      ;;
    --critical|-c)
      thresh_crit=$2
      shift
      ;;
    --host|-H)
      host=$2
      shift
      ;;
    --url|-u)
      url=$2
      shift
      ;;
    *)
      $ECHO "Unknown argument: $1"
      print_usage
      exit $STATE_UNKNOWN
      ;;
  esac
  shift
done


rm -f $status_out
t=$(time 2>&1 -p wget --quiet --post-data='username=xxxxxx&password=xxxx&id=xxxxx' --no-check-certificate --output-document=$status_out --timeout=30 "https://${host}${url}" | perl -ne 'print int($1 * 1000) if /^real (\S+)/')

if [ ".$t" != . ]; then
  if [ -s $status_out ]; then
    result="ok"
    exitstatus=$STATE_OK
    if [ $t -ge $thresh_warn ]; then
      result="warning"
      exitstatus=$STATE_WARNING
    fi
    if [ $t -ge $thresh_crit ]; then
      result="critical"
      exitstatus=$STATE_CRITICAL
    fi
  else
    result="critical"
    exitstatus=$STATE_CRITICAL
  fi
else
  result="critical"
  exitstatus=$STATE_CRITICAL
fi

echo "REQUEST $result - $t ms | rtt=$t"
exit $exitstatus

What i don't understand are the following parts:

1. if [ ".$t" != . ]; then
I know that is a not equal check, but .$t and . ?

2. if [ -s $status_out ]; then
Here i don't know the meaning of -s

3. if [ $t -ge $thresh_warn ]; then
What does the -ge do here? I would expect something like $t -xy=xx

The check is delivering a status "Critical" and when i don't understand this three parts i can not verify the values which are delivered.

Thx

Alex

Last edited by locutus01; 09-15-2009 at 06:26 AM.. Reason: Tag failure
# 2  
Old 09-15-2009
Alex,

Code:
 
1. if [ ".$t" != . ]; then

The above is basically to check whether the variable $t is set or not. If it is indeed set to some value, then ".$t" will NOT be equal to "."

eg: if $t is set to a, then ".$t" will be equal to ".a".

Code:
2. if [ -s $status_out ]; then

-s file True if file exists and has a size greater than zero.

"man test" will give you more information.


Code:
3. if [ $t -ge $thresh_warn ]; then

The above is checking whether $t is greater than or equal to $thresh_warn and hence "-ge" option.

This is used for comparing numerals.


HTH,Smilie


Regards,

Praveen
# 3  
Old 09-15-2009
Thanks for the quick and good answer, will help me a lot.

Alex
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