Shell Programming and Scripting

I am looking for a script out there that can email me when my AIX server throws and error that is picked up by errpt -a

Thanks

SeaCros

/opt/scripts/do_arbitrary_and-or_poorly-specified_things.sh:

Code:

errpt -a
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
    /opt/scripts/send_arbitrary_and-or_poorly-specified_emails.sh
fi

Thanks.
I will try it out.

Can you be more specific on this one? I also would like to email them to a few admins and just send the most recent error in the errpt.

Thanks

I am sorry to say, but this script won't help anything.
THis script only tests if "errpt -a" is working or not, but not if a new error arrived in the errpt.
You are better off trying this script:
http://www.stanford.edu/~ssklar/errreporter/errreporter
or write something your own, comparing the timestamps of entries since last <n> minutes.

You can also use errnotify, described here:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infoce...ror_notice.htm

I only thing is, I had problems with errnotify in this case (errpt), because always when an error comes in, the script that will send you a mail for example, is triggered.
We needed a script, that will just put the errors alltogether in one mail, which happened in the last interval to avoid spam. We also needed to differ between PERM H(ardware) errors and other types of H errors.

Maybe you can also get something useful out of using "errpt -c" piping to some processing which will work like a tail -f on errpt. If entries occure, you can always have a filter up or something that will work with the output.

I suspect that you missed the joke.

If you can provide specific information on the inputs you have and the outputs you'd like to get, I can be of significantly more assistance.

Yeah I missed that one. I was looking for a solution and the joke flew over my head.