Hi Cline,

We have enclosed a sample script and its output in the attached zip. This script is with reference to our environment. When using the same, change the directory path and file names accordingly. Also, please note that this is a very simple script that just forces a key value pair into a output file.

Sample execution of the script in the linux goes like this,

sh sampleTest.sh This is the sample script

While configuring this in the Applications Manager, please do the following.

1. Display Name -> Some Name to be displayed

2. Script to Monitor -> /home/harikrishnan/supportlogs/sampleTest.sh

3. Directory from which the script should be executed -> /home/harikrishnan/supportlogs/

If some output file is present, please check the "Output Settings"

4. Output File -> /home/harikrishnan/supportlogs/sampleout.txt

5. String Attributes -> name (Check the output file.If there are more than one, give them in seperated by line)

6. Numeric Attributes -> agrumnetsPassed (same, as mentioned for the String Attributes above)

7. Delimiter in the output file -> = (If space " " is the delimiter. leave this field empty)

8. Arguments -> This is the sample script

9. Polling Interval -> 5 minutes

10. Timeout -> 10 seconds (Maximum time Applications Manager should wait for the script to terminate)

11. Enter the Mode -> sh (How we are calling the script , here "sh" )


Believe this clarifies your doubts.

Thanks and Regards,
Hari.

This does help. I do have a few more questions:

1. My script is a perl script. Is 'perl' a viable mode? If not, should it work if I setup a wrapper 'sh' script that will call the perl script? It didn't seem to work when I initially tried it.

2. So I don't need to put the script in CRON, ManageEngine will actually execute the script?

3. The script has a lot of STOUT and STDERR output that doesn't get written to the "Output File". Will this cause problems for ManageEngine? Is ManageEngine actually parsing the STDOUT/STDERR output from the script?

4. It would work better for me if ManageEngine would just monitor the output file. Then I could run the job via CRON and ME would just have to look at the data. Is there a way to do this?

Thanks

A Cline

Hi Cline,

Please find the replies in the same order.

1. Yes. 'perl' is a valid mode. Also you can execute the perl
script within a \'sh'\ script. In this case, try executing the
'sh' script before configuring in the Applications Manager.

2. Yes. Applications Manager will execute the script as per
the polling interval.

3. No. Applications Manager will not worry about the way the
script is written. It just needs a script to be executed and some
output file to be parsed. So, you had to specify the attribute
names that should be monitored by Applications Manager in the
"New Monitor" configuration.

4. Yes. There is a way to do this. Just give some dummy script
as the "Script to be monitored" to the Applications Manager. But
give the exact "output file" that will be generated by your CRON
job. So, now ,you are simply executing some dummy file using the
Applications Manager and then parsing the correct output file.

Thanks and Regards,
Hari.

I got this working.

Thanks,

A Cline

According to the output of the stdout.txt file, Appmanager tries to execute any script you put in there as 'sh script' so it won't run a perl script, as i came to find out after 2 days of working on it... you have to use a shell script to call it. OpManager on the other hand will execute perl if you add it as a system command. also, can we get the text input box for the program to execute on appmanager to be something like 200 characters instead of 100? that doens't really give you enough room to do all of your command line options & script name & separaters for parsing..
thanks,

Hi,

Thank you very much for pointing out the issues.

Perl scripts are supported in the script monitoring, while they
are not supported in the Execute Action.

Both the issues that you had mentioned will be addressed in our
upcoming service pack which will be available shortly.

Thanks and Regards,
Hari.
(Applications Manager)

Hi,

We can run scripts in the remote servers for below Operating systems using Telnet or SSH mode.

Linux,AIX,Sun Solaris,Mac OS,FreeBSD/OpenBSD

Regards.
Gobi.