Hi,
31.10.2008 12:37, Kevin Keane wrote:
> Thank you very much! It almost works. Turns out that what I actually
> need isn't the client name as I had thought, but the address of the
> client (the DNS name). More accurately, what I really need is the name
> under which the client is known to Nagios - which fortunately I can
> easily derive from the DNS name.
>
> Do you have any ideas for that? If not, I can probably come up with a
> workaround on my own.
I'm doing this with a static mapping, i.e. my Bacula clients are all
called hostname-fd, the Nagios name is hostname, and the DNS name is
hostname.subdomain.domain.de.
Then, with minimal shell pattern matching and substitution I get what
I need.
Arno
> Arno Lehmann wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> 31.10.2008 11:06, Kevin Keane wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to find a way to pass the client name to the run_before
>>> script, but I can't see a way to actually make it work. Apparently,
>>> variable expansion is not available for the Run Before Job?
>>>
>>> In my JobDef, I have the line:
>>>
>>> Run Before Job = "/usr/local/sbin/myscript ${Client}"
>>>
>>> The script executes for each backup job, but always receives the literal
>>> ${Client} instead of the actual client name.
>>>
>>> Is there a way to make this work?
>>>
>> Probably... try "%c" instead of the $-Syntax (which would, if at all,
>> only work in a counter), as per
>> http://www.bacula.org/manuals/en/install/install/Configuring_Director.html#character_substitution
>>
>> Arno
>>
>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>
>
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