Shell Programming and Scripting

Hey guys/gals,

I am feeling extremely rusty today and having a problem with a monitoring script I am writing. I am trying to write a monitor using a entry in a line in log file. I can get the entry extracted from the file to a temp file. But when I try and do the if statement for the greater than I get a "integer expression expected" and I know it is because it isn't reading the number in the file. But I am not figuring out where I am going wrong.

Raw log data (there are multiple lines in the file.
Extraction Script:

Code:

cat /home/users/apps/alarms.log |grep Xdb: |tail -1 | awk '{print $6}' |awk -F: '{print $2}' > $OUTFILE1

Extracted String:
DBX:7074

Finish Result in outfile after above Script:
7074

Code:

Concern="85"
Danger="95"

OUTFILE1=/home/users/scottzx7rr/tmp/Conn1.out

### TEST FOR DBX Connections Count

## APP QUERY
cat /home/users/apps/alarms.log |grep Xdb: |tail -1 | awk '{print $6}' |awk -F: '{print $2}' > $OUTFILE1

## SNPP1 TEST RESULTS
if [ $OUTFILE1 -ge "$Danger" ]
then
        SNPP1=2
        TEXTLINE="Too many Connections. (Number of Connections:  $OUTFILE1)"

elif [ $SNPP1_OUTFILE -ge "$Concern" ]
then
        SNPP1=1
        TEXTLINE="Large number of Connections. (Number of Connections:  $OUTFILE1)"

else
        FIRST=0
        TEXTLINE="Connections are within tolerances.   (Number of Connections:  $OUTFILE1)"

fi

So then I want to compare the file (7074) and if it is greater than 95 show the "Too Many Connections results". If greater than 85 show the "Large number" and if less than 85 show the "Connections are within"

OUTFILE1 has value /home/users/scottzx7rr/tmp/Conn1.out. You must pull the content of OUTFILE1 than compare it with $Danger

You don't need to cat into grep; grep can read the file on its own. Secondly, you can get by with one awk process rather than the whole pipeline, and you can assign the output to your variable rather than putting it into a file and having to read it back. If you do it that way, then you can compare directly. For example assuming kshell or bash:

Code:

danger=95
concern=80
cconn=$( awk '/DBX/ { split( $6, a, ":" ); c = a[2]; } END { print c }' /home/users/apps/alarms.log )
if (( cconn > danger ))
then
    echo "too many connections: $cconn"
else
    if (( cconn > concern ))
    then
        echo "large number of connections: $cconn"
    else
        echo "number of connections acceptable: $cconn"
    fi
fi

Thanks guys for the input. I was able to resolve my issue with your guys help.