Call for configs

[Andreas Ericsson]

On 08/27/2012 09:39 PM, Frost, Mark {BIS} wrote:
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>> -----Original Message----- From: Andreas Ericsson
>> [mailto:ae at op5.se] Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 9:37 AM To:
>> nagios-devel; Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net Subject:
>> [Nagios-devel] Call for configs
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>> I've created a small scriptlet that will let you anonymize most of
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>> your configuration, which can be downloaded from here:
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>> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/83439435/scripts/nagios-anonymizer.sh
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> Andreas,
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> I decided to give this a whirl to see what I wound up with and if it
> was something I felt I could send along.  As it turns out I'm having
> trouble getting this script to work right.  I've been trying to debug
> the script on our servers, but given that I'm not entirely certain
> what each step is supposed to be doing, it makes it difficult to
> figure out how to fix it.
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> First thing is that the bourne shell's I've got here (SLES Linux
> 11.1) don't like parens when you call a shell function so I needed to
> change:
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> 12c12
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> < if test "$#" -ne 2; then usage(); fi
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>> if test "$#" -ne 2; then usage; fi
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> to make it not error out.
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> The usage seems to indicate that I should be running it as
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> ./nagios-anonymizer.sh /opt/nagios/core/bin/nagios
> /opt/nagios/core/etc/nagios.cfg
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> That runs OK and gets the vs-output file, but when it runs the sed
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> sed -i "s/^cfg_.*/$ncpath/" > nagios.cfg
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> sed gives me a talkin' to with
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> + sed -i 's/^cfg_.*//opt/nagios/core/etc/nagios.cfg/'
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> sed: -e expression #1, char 12: unknown option to `s'
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> I'm assuming that I should use the GNU sed feature that allows me to
> use a different separator, but additionally, I don't see where
> there's an input file specified for sed either.   I changed it to
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> sed -i "s#^cfg_.*#$ncpath#" $ncpath > nagios.cfg
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> While that doesn't generate errors, it also doesn't generate anything
> in the nagios.cfg output file.  I'm not sure what this line is
> supposed to be doing.  It would appear that the intent is to replace
> a line in nagios.cfg like
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> cfg_dir=/opt/nagios/core/etc/oconf
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> with just
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> /opt/nagios/core/etc/nagios.cfg
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> (that doesn't seem right to me either).  Perhaps the intent was to do
> something like
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> sed -i "s#^cfg_.*#$ncpath#" vs-output > nagios.cfg
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> Then it seems to just hang on the next sed line ("Processing object
> config files...") presumably because there's no input file there and
> it's try to read stdin.
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> Oh, and perhaps rather importantly, you define "wkdir=" at the top,
> but then refer to "workdir" everywhere else in the file).
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Oh the shame. That's really embarrassing. I even tested it before I
broke it when polishing it up :-/

Many thanks. I've updated the script at the original location with
your fixed version.

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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
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