[Xymon] display multiple line status

I don't think the xymon command will do any escaping. Instead you need to pass the newline literally. Why is it you can't use a file? Knowing why you're constrained would make it easier to propose a suitable solution.

You could do something like this:

$XYMON $XYMSRV "status www,foo,com.http green date Web OK second line"

Or to make it more readable:

NL=' ' # newline $XYMON $XYMSRV "status www,foo,com.http green date Web OK${NL}second line"

Or maybe this would work for you:

printf "status www,foo,com.http green date Web OK\nsecond line\n" | $XYMON $XYMSRV "@"

Or of you don't like to use printf:

{ echo "status www,foo,com.http green date Web OK"; echo "second line\n"; } | $XYMON $XYMSRV "@"

Cheers Jeremy

On 10 May 2013 10:02, P Yeung <p3yeung at gmail.com> wrote:

I am using xymon 4.3.11.

Using the example shown in "man xymon",

> $XYMON $XYMSRV "status www,foo,com.http green `date` Web OK"

I can see the status displayed as a single line in the xymon server.

Thu May 9 16:52:07 PDT 2013 Web OK

I need to display multiple lines to the xymon server, with the data in the command line rather than a file. I tried,

> $XYMON $XYMSRV "status www,foo,com.http green `date` Web OK\n second

line"

But the status is displayed in one line instead of two in the xymon server

 Thu May 9 16:52:47 PDT 2013 Web OK\n second line

What escape character should I use to specify new line?

Thanks P Yeung

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