RE: [nv-l] Paging display & nvaction.alog display

["Davis, Donald" <donald.davis@firstcitizens.com>]

Regina,
This is normal because of a fix for a security exposure with SNMP traps.
They have added code to escape any non alpha-numeric character.
That means "dot" becomes "backslash dot".
Here are 2 code snippet of how I get rid of these backslashes in my E-mail and Paging scripts.

### KORN SHELL ####################
set -A MSG $*
while (( $i <= ${#MSG[*]} ))
do
  TEXT="$TEXT ${MSG[$i]}"
  TEXT=`echo $TEXT | sed 's/\\\//g'`
  let i=$i+1
done
echo $TEXT

### PERL ##########################
foreach (@ARGV) {
  $TEXT.= $_." ";
  $TEXT=~  s/\\//g;
}
print $TEXT;

Don Davis

-----Original Message-----
From: Regina King [mailto:rking@dss.state.la.us]
Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 1:23 PM
To: nv-l@lists.tivoli.com
Subject: [nv-l] Paging display & nvaction.alog display

I am running Netview 6.0.3 on AIX 4.3.3 on 7025 F80 Rs6000.  I have a ruleset in use that sends out pages when a router/switch go down.  For sometime now I have been getting additional characters in the display on the pager.  For example,  a POP site router dssnot.dss.state.la.us went down.  The display on the router that came back was dssnot\.dss\.state\.la\ us DOWN.  Where are the back slashes coming from ?  Is this message that appears in nvaction.alog after the page message,  relating to the page message?

2002/06/18 12:19:43  .//nl_Actionsvr.C[807] :   Varbind contained an =3D
illegal character.
Issuing sanitized version of the varbind:

Regina King, IT Support Specialist
LA Dept. of Social Services
rking@dss.state.la.us
225-342-4731

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