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Re: Passing NVA event Attribute to awk script ??

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Subject: Re: Passing NVA event Attribute to awk script ??
From: "Jeff Fitzwater" <jfitz@Princeton.EDU>
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 16:43:50 -0400
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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