Aw: Re: Re: bash script - extend - output as integer

Hi Paul,

thank you very much.

I will try to write a agent!

Gesendet: Dienstag, 21. April 2020 um 23:21 Uhr

Von: "Paul Herring" <[email protected]>

An: "Dennis Schneck" <[email protected]>

Cc: [email protected]

Betreff: Re: Re: bash script - extend - output as integer

On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 8:14 PM Dennis Schneck <[email protected] > wrote:

Hello Paul,

thanks but exit code only max 255 (or I am wrong?) but I need 4 digets for example 9999

so is there another way ?

From the same link:

> Integer exit codes are limited to a range of 0–255. For values that are likely to exceed 256, either use the standard output of the script (which will be typed as a string) or a different method of extending the agent.

So. Your options are

- use STRING anyway (their first suggestion)

- don't use extend and write a proper agent (their second)

- old-skool - use scaled integers, where 0 represents - er - 0. And 255 represents (to pick your example) 9999 - quick example of this third:

---

#!/bin/bash -u

val=${1:-0}

scaled=$((255*val/9999))

exit ${scaled}

---

$ for x in 1 10 39 40 41 250 500 5000 7500 9999; do ./scaled.sh ${x}; echo "${x} -> $?"; done

1 -> 0

10 -> 0

39 -> 0

40 -> 1

41 -> 1

250 -> 6

500 -> 12

5000 -> 127

7500 -> 191

9999 -> 255

----

Note each unit of output represents a range of about 40 input units. If you can 'tighten' that 0-9999 range it may improve, bur your granularity is still stuck to 256 values.

Out of range numbers go silly with that specific script - you'd need error checking:

$ for x in 10000 20000 30000 40000; do ./scaled.sh ${x}; echo "${x} -> $?"; done

10000 -> 255

20000 -> 254

30000 -> 253

40000 -> 252

Gesendet: Dienstag, 21. April 2020 um 15:36 Uhr

Von: "Paul Herring" <[email protected] >

An: "Dennis Schneck" <[email protected] >

Cc: [email protected]

Betreff: Re: bash script - extend - output as integer

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/18/html/System_Administrators_Guide/sect-System_Monitoring_Tools-Net-SNMP-Extending.html

> Note that the exit code (“8” in this example) is provided as an INTEGER type and any output is provided as a STRING type.

You want get_TempOfRoom1.sh to exit (the return code) with the value you want in the INTEGER, not echo it out.

On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 1:56 PM Dennis Schneck <[email protected] > wrote:

Hello,

how to get an integer value from a bash script if using "extend" in /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf ?

extend TempOfRoom1 /scripts/get_TempOfRoom1.sh

got only STRING but no INTEGER

NET-SNMP-EXTEND-MIB::nsExtendOutput1Line."TempOfRoom1" = STRING: 2210

like to get:

NET-SNMP-EXTEND-MIB::nsExtendResult."TempOfRoom1" = INTEGER: 2210 insted of "NET-SNMP-EXTEND-MIB::nsExtendOutput1Line."TempOfRoom1" = STRING: 2210"

--

PJH

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