[ale] Shell Script Question

[Geoffrey Myers]

Scott Steele wrote:
> Thanks for your help so far on this, I received further clarification as
> to what I need to do and I think it requires a little tweaking. For the
> ones that are "state:reachable" I don't need any value returned, or
> maybe a simple echo statement that says "reachable" or a numeric value
> of "-1". I can change it if necessary.. For the ones that are in
> "state:unreachable". I need a count of how many return like that. Say
> 5,6,7, or so on.  So the output I am interested in is:
> 
> -1 (good)
> 
> or
> 
> 5 (bad)
> 
> This is the script so far that I have. For a reference point.

I would suggest that if you want to do some accumulation like that, that 
awk is probably the tool you want to use.

> 
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> export JAVA_HOME=/hosting/products/
> WebSphereU01/java
> 
> #sets the environment in java
> 
> #the values -p -bp and -ch will need to be altered according to what
> needs to be run.
> 
> /hosting/ogsa/ogsa-6.1.0.5/ObjectGrid/bin/xsadmin.sh -p 26572 -bp 26570
> -ch nc3sz2ecmus02 -routetable | sed -e 's/.*state:reachable.*/>0/' e
> 's/.*state:unreachable.*/<0/' > `date "+%y%m%d%H%M%S"`.txt
> 
> This is the output it produces in its current form.
> 
>  >0
> 
>  >0
> 
>  >0
> 
> And so forth.
> 
> 
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 9:54 PM, Scott Steele <roninazure at gmail.com 
> <mailto:roninazure at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     I've been trying to test this script on my server at work, but
>     unfortunately VPN has been flaking on me tonight:-(
> 
>     On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 8:35 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com
>     <mailto:jim.kinney at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>         Oops. Change  .\* to. \+
> 
>         On Aug 11, 2011 8:01 PM, "David Tomaschik"
>         <david at systemoverlord.com <mailto:david at systemoverlord.com>> wrote:
>          > On 08/11/2011 07:51 PM, Scott Steele wrote:
>          >> I haven't been able to try this code yet since I cannot
>         connect to the
>          >> server, but would it return with just "1" value after if
>         finishes with
>          >> a script? say 1 or -1? That would be what I would be looking for
>          >> SiteScope to understand.
>          >>
>          >> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 6:22 PM, Jim Kinney
>         <jim.kinney at gmail.com <mailto:jim.kinney at gmail.com>
>          >> <mailto:jim.kinney at gmail.com <mailto:jim.kinney at gmail.com>>>
>         wrote:
>          >>
>          >> | sed -e 's/statereachable.\*/1/' -e 's/stateunreachable.\*/-1/'
>          >>
>          >> On Aug 11, 2011 6:16 PM, "Scott Steele"
>         <roninazure at gmail.com <mailto:roninazure at gmail.com>
>          >> <mailto:roninazure at gmail.com <mailto:roninazure at gmail.com>>>
>         wrote:
>          >> > I am relatively a little rusty with the shell scripting
>         and was
>          >> wondering if
>          >> > someone could help me with my dilemma. I use IBM WebSphere and
>          >> the command I
>          >> > use is:
>          >> >
>          >> > xsadmin.sh -p 11111 -bp 11111 -ch servername123 -routetable
>          >> >
>          >> > The output is an example of this:
>          >> >
>          >> > P: partition:83 - state:reachable - ipaddress:servername100 -
>          >> zone:ZoneB
>          >> >> R: partition:83 - state:reachable - ipaddress:servername101-
>          >> zone:ZoneA
>          >> > P: partition:84 - state:reachable - ipaddress:servername102 -
>          >> zone:ZoneB
>          >> >> R: partition:84 - state:reachable - ipaddress:servername103 -
>          >> zone:ZoneA
>          >> > P: partition:85 - state:reachable - ipaddress:servername104 -
>          >> zone:ZoneA
>          >> >> R: partition:85 - state:reachable - ipaddress:servername105 -
>          >> zone:ZoneB
>          >> >
>          >> > And so on.
>          >> >
>          >> > I need to condense the output of this file to send to
>         SiteScope
>          >> as a file
>          >> > with only values of either <0 or >0. Meaning, if the
>          >> state:reachable it
>          >> > needs to appear as >0. if state:unreachable than the value
>         needs
>          >> to appear
>          >> > as <0. I basically need to find a way to remove all erroneous
>          >> info and
>          >> > substitute the words state:reachable or state:unreachable with
>          >> either <0 or
>          >> >>0. I have tried many different methods, awk, sed and grep but
>          >> seem to come
>          >> > up short. Any help would be most appreciative and would be a
>          >> great learning
>          >> > tool.
>          >> >
>          >> > Thanks!
>          >>
>          >
>          > Are you looking for return value or output? For output, Jim's sed
>          > commands should work, but you might need a ".*" at the
>         beginning of each
>          > pattern.
>          >
>          > Providing sample output with the sample input would probably help
>          > everyone understand.
>          >
>          > David
> 
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