Parse XML files

vidyagana · Post by **vidyagana** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 3:53 pm

Hi Alex,

I have the following requirement - One of the applications in our server has some jobs running, one job every day and one job during weekends and for each job an xml file is generated. One way for me to set up alerts is to check every new file in that directory for the words "failed" or "successful" and take actions accordingly. But I want to know if the following is possible - I want to know if I will be able to open every new file and email me with the values in certain xml tags like "Job name", "Status" etc.

Please let me know.

Thanks.

KS-Soft · Post by **KS-Soft** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 4:18 pm

HostMonitor cannot check "every new file", it can monitor some specific file. You don't know name of the files you need to monitor?

Regards
Alex

vidyagana · Post by **vidyagana** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 4:24 pm

No, I dont know the name of the file because it is randomly generated by the backup exec application. All I know is that the file names will be something like BEX<some number>.xml

Thanks.

KS-Soft · Post by **KS-Soft** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 10:34 am

Probably you can move old (checked) files into another directory? So folder will contain only new file?

Regards
Alex

vidyagana · Post by **vidyagana** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 11:18 am

That is a remote possibility but if I can achieve that how will I parse the output xml file to email values of specific tags.

Thanks.

Marcel DAVID · Post by **Marcel DAVID** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 12:14 pm

Hello !

By experience (the worst way ...), I know it's more complicated than testing the toggle "OK/ERROR" in a backup log file to be sure that the job has done what you have expected. In some situations, a backup may save quite nothing and report that all is working fine.

If you do not want to read carefully the logs, every day, you have to build an application which will report you : number of files saved, number of bytes saved, every message, comment, warning that is not normally present and so on ... This is not, in my opinion, a question that HM may solve.

But, but, but ...

Some streamers are reporting, using SNMP, some interesting status and counters. The one who is very interesting is : does the streamer nead a cleaning operation. I can't tell you the number of streamers I've encountered that are NEVER cleaned ! This, I'll monitor with HM.

I apologized for this post : it's not directly related to HM. I'm a newbee with HM but I've a too (?) long experience in IT ...

Regards

KS-Soft · Post by **KS-Soft** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 1:56 pm

Sorry, I missed second question.
HostMonitor does not provide built-in XML parser. So, you need some external utility.

Regards
Alex

Parse XML files

Parse XML files

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