How to run shell scripts and get the results via analysis

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Hi Team,

Can you please help me how to get the results in analysis for below shell commands or all multiple endpoints outputs in single file.

powermt display
multipath -ll|grep -i failed"
“lsof |grep “/nfs/SAP”|wc -l”

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One way might be to create something like myvalues.csv on each endpoint with key:value as content.
Withing Bigfix create a analyse with, in your example, 3 properties with relevance like:
following text of first “:” of lines whose (it starts with “”) of file “myvalues.csv”

In addition, some checks like “if exists file then … else false” etc. might be usefule.

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you can use bigfix API via python or else. Run any cmd and dump the output of the cmd in log and read that log in same work flow.

cmd_argu="/sbin/pvs|grep -v Free >  /tmp/bftask_run_cmd.log"
...
def build_xml(computer_target):

  action_script="""\ndelete __appendfile\
\ndelete /tmp/run_cmd.sh\
\ndelete /tmp/bftask_run_cmd.log\
\nappendfile """+cmd_argu+"""\
\nappendfile chmod 644 /tmp/bftask_run_cmd.log\
\nmove __appendfile /tmp/run_cmd.sh\
\nwait chmod 755 /tmp/run_cmd.sh\
\nwait /bin/sh /tmp/run_cmd.sh\
\ndelete /tmp/run_cmd.sh """

  #print(action_script)
  #exists (operating system) whose (it as string as lowercase contains "Linux" as lowercase)
  xml_query='<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>\
    <BES xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" SkipUI="true">\
    <SingleAction>\
        <Title>Deploy: Execute OS Command</Title>\
          <Relevance>exists (operating system) whose (it as string contains regex "Linux|AIX|SunOS|HP-UX" )</Relevance> \
        <ActionScript>\
         '+action_script+'\
        </ActionScript>\
        <SuccessCriteria />\
        <Settings />\
        <SettingsLocks />\
        <Target>'

  xml_query=xml_query+""+computer_target+""+"</Target> </SingleAction></BES>"
  xml=xml_query
  print("\nBuilding Query XML :"+ xml+"\n")
  #sys.exit()
  req_bes_query_id=requests.post(bigfix_URL_action,verify=False,auth=(bigfix_username,bigfix_pwd),data=xml)
  return req_bes_query_id

..
  query='lines of file "/tmp/bftask_run_cmd.log"'
   xml_query='<BESAPI xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="BESAPI.xsd"> \
          <ClientQuery>\
                <ApplicabilityRelevance>true</ApplicabilityRelevance>\
                <QueryText>'+query+'</QueryText>\
                <Target>\
                 '+computer_target+'\
                </Target>\
          </ClientQuery>\
          </BESAPI>'
          #print ("\nReading Query Log :" +xml_query)

          req_bes_query_id=requests.post(self.bigfix_URL_client_query,verify=False,auth=(bigfix_username,bigfix_pwd),data=xml_query)
          #print("\nExecuting XML Query for LOG :"+req_bes_query_id.text)
          query_ID=""
          tree2 = ET.fromstring(req_bes_query_id.text)
          for fixlet in tree2.findall('.//ClientQuery'):
                 query_ID=fixlet.find("ID").text
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Hi Matthias

Can you help on below and provide me the analysis or property relevance,

powermt display
multipath -ll|grep -i failed"
“lsof |grep “/nfs/SAP”|wc -l”

5

Hi,
it is not possible to gather this content directly. You need to create a fixlet creating the output. Action script should be similar to:
wait sh -c “lsof |grep “/nfs/SAP”|wc -l >> /tmp/mycontent.txt”

To have a simple test:
echo “testcontent” >> /tmp/mycontent.txt
check with qna:
/opt/BESClient/bin/qna

Q: lines of file "/tmp/mycontent.txt"
A: testcontent
T: 7147

Within the analysis you can import the data using
lines of file “/tmp/mycontent.txt”

Of course, this is not perfect as checks like “exists file” etc. are missing. I would suggest to play a little bit around and have a look at existing analyses and properties.

Good examples can be found in site “BES Inventory and license”, eg. fixlet “hardwareprobe linux” and analyse “hardware information linux”

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Thank for your valuable support Matthias