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# 8  
Old 01-16-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by Scott
It would seem a bit pointless to chop up the hostname and use a variable containing the same hostname. I'd expect the variables AA and BB to contain a different name, therefore \$$(hostname ...) would be more apt if using eval. It's probably also possible to avoid hostname and cut if the HOSTNAME variable is set.
Code:
${HOSTNAME:0:2}

@Scott
Variable hostname
each server hostname has different network
as server hostname is AA1server.example.com
and Client hostname is AA1client.example.com
each and every time I do pinging test between client and server manually. we have 15 different network.
# 9  
Old 01-16-2014
When I responded I made a lot of assumptions:
  1. The current machine is named something like AAclient1 or BBclient2.
  2. The server for this client is AA1xx.example.com if the client's hostname starts with AA.
  3. The server for this client is BB1xx.example.com if the client's hostname starts with BB.
  4. The point of this exercise is to ping this client's server.
But, of course I had a typo in my response in message $6 in this thread (that has now been corrected) so it didn't work at all. If any of my assumptions were wrong, it might help to have a better explanation of what you're trying to do than just showing us code that isn't working and having us guess at what you're trying to do.
# 10  
Old 01-16-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by Don Cragun
When I responded I made a lot of assumptions:
  1. The current machine is named something like AAclient1 or BBclient2.
  2. The server for this client is AA1xx.example.com if the client's hostname starts with AA.
  3. The server for this client is BB1xx.example.com if the client's hostname starts with BB.
  4. The point of this exercise is to ping this client's server.
But, of course I had a typo in my response in message $6 in this thread (that has now been corrected) so it didn't work at all. If any of my assumptions were wrong, it might help to have a better explanation of what you're trying to do than just showing us code that isn't working and having us guess at what you're trying to do.
@Don
Here I am trying generate connectivity reports from client to server,
when I run this script it should ping with correct server according to the client hostname. eg: AA has one of the group of servers and client.
AAClient will not ping with BB1XX server
this i want to use in multiple clients under the groups of servers.
# 11  
Old 01-16-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by nith_anandan
@Don
Here I am trying generate connectivity reports from client to server,
when I run this script it should ping with correct server according to the client hostname. eg: AA has one of the group of servers and client.
AAClient will not ping with BB1XX server
this i want to use in multiple clients under the groups of servers.
OK. Good. In that case the suggestion I gave in message #6 in this thread should work as a template that can be easily expanded to handle the 15 servers on your network.
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