Thanks much James. I knew what you meant on the first mail. I guess awk
can't
get variable passed directly to it. It must get passed to a shell then to awk.
I can make it work now.
thanks again.
Jeff F.,
James_Shanks@tivoli.com wrote:
> Rats. I am too clumsy. That should read
> echo $NVA >> /myfile
> echo $NVATTR_1 >> /myfile
> .....
> echo $NVATTR_n >> /myfile
>
> so that you append to that file, other wise the only variable in it will be
> the
> last one.
>
> James Shanks
> Tivoli (NetView for UNIX and NT) L3 Support
>
> James_Shanks@TIVOLI.COM on 05/10/2000 04:31:08 PM
>
> Please respond to IBM NetView Discussion <nv-l@tkg.com>
>
> To: IBM NetView Discussion <nv-l@tkg.com>
> cc: (bcc: James Shanks/Tivoli Systems)
> Subject: Re: [NV-L] Passing NVA event Attribute to awk script ??
>
> I'm confused here. Sorry.
> In a ruleset action node $NVA will resolve to the agent address, which should
> resolve to a hostname.
> But to get attribute number one, you use $NVATTR_1 not $1 like you do for
> trapd.
>
> But I think your script is probably getting the variable correctly.
> To prove that I would add this to it right at the beginning:
> echo $NVA > /myfile
> echo $NVATTR_1 > /myfile
> .....
> echo $NVATTR_n > /myfile
>
> for however many you have and go look in myfile after it executes
>
> James Shanks
> Tivoli (NetView for UNIX and NT) L3 Support
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