Solaris

I'll preface this by saying I'm just a novice, with just basic knowledge of shell scripting, as well as basic knowledge in SNMP. I working on a script that takes the motd file on a solaris 5.x box and parses the information out into an OID to be passed to the SNMP server. We're using SysEDGE client and Spectrum on the server end.

MOTD file:
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Code:

#******************************************************#
#  IN CASE OF EMERGENCY, CALL FRONTLINE SUPPORT AT (555) 555-5555
#
# Primary ESA      = FirstN LastN
# Secondary ESA    = FirstN LastN
# Primary Customer = FirstN LastN
# Primary DBA      = FirstN LastN
# System Location  = MK E-09 T1-CH2-03
# Business Unit    = Dev Interfaces #1
# Console          = Blade Center
# System Type      = 7998-60X
#******************************************************#

Code to parse out what needed:
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Code:

#!/bin/sh

# Shell script to pull primary ESA out of a file

# Define some stuff
FILENAME=/etc/motd

# Do work
grep "Primary ESA" $FILENAME|cut -d\= -f2

This works great to pull just the one line out.

This script then needs to be added to the sysedge.cf file as:
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Code:

extension 1 OctetString readwrite '/etc/primaryesa.sh'
extension 2 OctetString readwrite '/etc/secondaryesa.sh'
etc....

I realize that the script won't set the snmp OID to this value, and that's were I'm having the issue. What I want to do is to have a single script that pulls all the information sequentially as it's being called from the .cf file. I've tried to manually set the value, but was getting snmpset: Varbind could not be created. I've not created the MIB extensions on the server yet, but I was just trying to set the OID value to the private local machine(127.0.0.1). What am I missing? Can someone please help?

Jeff

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