running a shell script in the big fix

[sfareed]

Hi I am new to big fix and needs to run a shell script on the big fix where i can start , any help will be appreciated

[Aram]

There should be many examples on the Forum as well as on bigfix.me, but here’s one I just posted earlier today:

Need to make an analysis for Suse servers reporting

You can certainly execute scripts via actionscript, and parse the outputs as above. To do so, you can either download the script, or create it on the fly with something like: delete __appendfile delete myscript.sh createfile until EOF #!/bin/sh dmidecode | grep Populated | grep -v disabled | wc -l >> /temp/file1 a=cat /etc/SuSE-release ; echo $a >> /temp/file2 dmidecode -t system | grep Product | awk -F: '{{print $2}'v >> /temp/file3 zypper lr | grep -i sap | wc -l >> /temp/file4 EOF m…

[bigfixforum]

you can use the prefetch as well.

[bigfixforum]

without the prefetch…

[bigfixforum]

Single action api

When I run this xml i get the error. I am dynamically targeting the server. It could be 1 server or 100+ servers using python. “The Fixlet which this action addresses is not relevant on this machine.” [Capture]

Relevance statment in shell script

Assuming you wanted to run different shell scripts within an actionscript based on the existence of different processes, you could try something like the following (I’ve not tested this, but it should hopefully give you some insight into the approach): if {exists process "httpd"} delete __appendfile delete runscript.sh appendfile final_str=”“ appendfile http=ps -eaf|grep "sbin/httpd"|awk ' {print $8}'|grep -v grep|sort|uniq|xargs appendfile if [ ! -z “$http” ] appendfile then appendfile…