Shell Programming and Scripting

Instead of asking us to keep up with your changing requirements, why don't you take the code RudiC suggested and try modifying it to meet your added requirements? We are here to help you learn how to write your own code; not to act as your unpaid programming staff for constantly changing requirements.

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Show us how you tried to modify it and tell us where you have problems if you can't get it to work.

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Hello bukinin,
reply to your questions : yes it fixed list three or 4 fixed queue names with specified limit . if it crosses the limit then only should pop out the result and trigger mail else should not consider in the output.
for example for QL.PGHR.GVR.ERR.LOG 298 this queue limit is 300 so should not appear in mail/output.

Hello wims,


pls. read, understand, and apply Don Cragun's post #8. Feel free to post here again for help if you get stuck. If so, provide (broad, and detailed) enough information to enable people in here to understand and work upon your problem.


Half baked answers (like yours in post #9) usually DON'T help. Where does the list come from - a file? An array? Divine revelation? How formatted? In other words - show data!

Hello wums,

My suggestion is to - for reasons of extensibility and maintainability - not to include it into the code directly but to create a file with queue names and their threshholds, like this:

Code:

QL.QUEUE1     50
QL.QUEUE2     75
QL.QUEUE3     100

At the start of your program you read in this file line by line and create an associative array of integers with the queue names as index and the threshhold values as values. When a line with a queue name is to be printed you first consult this array and if the queue name is in there you compare the queues length with the threshhold value and decide upon this if it is to ve included in the report or not.

Decisions you will have to make still are: what will happen if a queue is not included in this list. You have several options i could think of: a queue not included in the list is considered to have a threshhold of 0. This resembles what we started with. Another possibility is to ignore every queue not included in the list (so that in fact their "threshhold value is infinite". This way the list in your file would contain an extensive list of the queues you are interested in. Another possibility is to declare a general threshhold so that queues only get reported when they are crossing this threshhold. ONly the queues in the list will have their own differing threshhold value set according to this list. This is quite similar to the first possibility but there you'd have a general threshhold of zero.

I hope this helps.

bakunin