That is exactly what I was thinking.
Xymon version 4.3.0
In my script I get the results as follows:
Echo $BBALPHAMSG (everything is fine – except for formatting which is what I am trying to correct)Echo “$BBALPHAMSG” >file (message is written to file and formatting is as I would like but the “\*” characters are converted as described below)Echo $BBALPHAMSG >file (same as above but message is not formatted)
I have tried to pipe both of these through sed before sending to the file but that still isn’t working as the characters are converted prior to the pipe.
There has got to be a way that I can write these to a file but I am just missing something simple.
Thanks, John
John Rothlisberger Senior Analyst Application & Technology Integration Implementation & Managed Services for Business Process Outsourcing IT Strategy, Infrastructure & Security - Technology Growth Platform Accenture 312.693.3136 office
From: David Baldwin [mailto:david.baldwin at ausport.gov.au] Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 5:10 PM To: Rothlisberger, John R. Cc: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] Corrupted data in BBALPHAMSG?
John,
The "corrupted characters" you are seeing are the ASCII characters corresponding to the number after the \ character. e.g. \4 -> ^D, \44 -> $, etc. It looks like the string is being passed to something like a string formatting function (e.g. sprintf) without being properly quoted to escape '\' characters.
What version of Xymon are you using?
David.
Has anyone noticed what appears to be corruption in BBALPHAMSG? I have only noticed this behavior (so far) on disk checks and it always follows the backslash between the Total Space and Available Space. It also seems to be consistent from host to host (ex. The host below will have the same corruption for each disk check other hosts may show slightly different characters but not all hosts exhibit errors).
Within my email script all I am doing is ‘echo “$BBALPHAMSG” >tmpfile’.
Xymon Server: Ubuntu 10.04 Client (in this instance): W2k3 Server
The actual client data appears to be just as expected with no odd characters (this is pulled from the “Client data” link on the Xymon page):
[disk] Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted Summary(Total\Avail) C 20241899 11256291 8985608 55% /FIXED/C 19.31gb\8.58gb D 856979392 641409136 215570256 74% /FIXED/D 817.28gb\205.59gb F 179205040 54697624 124507416 30% /FIXED/F 170.92gb\118.75gb G 179205072 174737304 4467768 97% /FIXED/G 170.92gb\4.26gb H 179205072 174778264 4426808 97% /FIXED/H 170.92gb\4.22gb I 176064364 129088448 46975916 73% /FIXED/I 167.92gb\44.81gb J 1756490840 41785572 1714705268 2% /FIXED/J 1.65tb\1.61tb O 976771068 95844 976675224 0% /FIXED/O 931.53gb\931.44gb
But then when I use BBALPHAMSG within an email script there can be odd corruption:
yellow Wed Jul 27 09:24:50 2011 - Filesystems NOT ok &yellow G (97% used) has reached the WARNING level (97%) &yellow H (97% used) has reached the WARNING level (97%)
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted Summary(Total\Avail) C 20241899 11256291 8985608 55% /FIXED/C 19.31gb\8.58gb D 856979392 641409136 215570256 74% /FIXED/D 817.28gb<85>.59gb F 179205040 54697624 124507416 30% /FIXED/F 170.92gb 8.75gb G 179205072 174737304 4467768 97% /FIXED/G 170.92gb^D.26gb H 179205072 174778264 4426808 97% /FIXED/H 170.92gb^D.22gb I 176064364 129088448 46975916 73% /FIXED/I 167.92gb$.81gb J 1756490840 41785572 1714705268 2% /FIXED/J 1.65tb^A.61tb O 976771068 95844 976675224 0% /FIXED/O 931.53gb\931.44gb
See http://xymonserver/xymon-cgi/svcstatus.sh?HOST=ServerA&SERVICE=disk Thanks, John
John Rothlisberger Senior Analyst Application & Technology Integration Implementation & Managed Services for Business Process Outsourcing IT Strategy, Infrastructure & Security - Technology Growth Platform Accenture 312.693.3136 office
This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged, proprietary, or otherwise private information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any other use of the email by you is prohibited.
--
David Baldwin - Assistant Director, Infrastructure (acting)
Information and Communication Technology Services
Australian Sports Commission http://ausport.gov.au
Tel 02 62147830 Fax 02 62141830 PO Box 176 Belconnen ACT 2616
david.baldwin at ausport.gov.au<mailto:david.baldwin at ausport.gov.au> Leverrier Street Bruce ACT 2617
Keep up to date with what's happening in Australian sport visit www.ausport.gov.au<http://www.ausport.gov.au>
This message is intended for the addressee named and may contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient please note that any form of distribution, copying or use of this communication or the information in it is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you receive this message in error, please delete it and notify the sender.