Automatically cycle smat files

[john benevento]

Is there any way to automatically cycle smat files?  I currently cycle them manually each week, but if I forget they become too large to open.  (We’re running with 5.3P REV 2 Windows)  Thanks for any suggestions.

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[garry r fisher]

Hi John,

I use a batch file to run hcicmd along the lines of:

call w:quovadxqdx5.3integratorsbinsetroot w:quovadxqdx5.3integrator production

hcicmd -p OCM -c “LAB_CLINIRES_OUT save_cycle out”

hcicmd -p OCM -c “CLINI_LABORD_OUT save_cycle out”

And then use Windows Scheduler to run it every day. Remember to set the user to hciuser within Scheduler.

Regards

Garry

[Russ Ross]

FYI – we have a naming convention for our SMAT files that are thread_name.out or thread_name.in!!!

Here are my cron entires:

#
# [code]#
#

Russ Ross
RussRoss318@gmail.com

[David Marquis]

Hello,

Where can I find the save_cycle procs?

Dave

[David Marquis]

Hello All,

I am trying to get this script to work under Windows and here is the error I get when I manually run the backupSMAT via that tcl command line:

C:quovadxqdx5.4integratorscripts>tcl backupSMAT.tcl

Prozess

Thread

Content

Error: can’t read “smat”: no such variable

   while executing

“keylget smat $filetype filename”

   (file “backupSMAT.tcl” line 16)

Any ideas? It seems that $smats isn’t set correctly.

Dave

Here is the code:

---

# First, set the HciRootDir, HciSite and HciSiteDir variables.

if [catch setHciDirs msg] {

  puts stderr $msgn

  exit 69

}

set args [split $argv]

lassign $args process thread content

echo Prozess $process

echo Thread $thread

echo Content $content

set filetype [string toupper $content]FILE

set threaddata [netconfig get connection data $thread]

keylget threaddata SAVEMSGS smats

keylget smats $filetype filename

set idxfile $HciSiteDir/exec/processes/$process/$filename.old.idx

set msgfile $HciSiteDir/exec/processes/$process/$filename.old.msg

catch {file mkdir $HciSiteDir/exec/processes/$process/backup}

if {[file exists $idxfile]} {

set ts [clock format [file mtime $idxfile] -format %Y%m%d%H%M%S]

set bakidx $HciSiteDir/exec/processes/$process/backup/$filename.$ts.idx

set bakmsg $HciSiteDir/exec/processes/$process/backup/$filename.$ts.msg

catch {file rename $idxfile $bakidx}

catch {file rename $msgfile $bakmsg}

}

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[Charlie Bursell]

Weird ❗   Tcl is seeing the command “keylget smat $filetype filename” while the script has “keylget smats $filetype filename”  It is not seeing the s at the end.  Something weird maybe when you entered it.  Just delete the line and re-enter to see what happens.

[Dirk Engels]

Hi David,

this is a little script I wrote to cycle SMAT files for our customers. The script would normally be called from a script called cycleSMAT.bat.

The script needs 3 parameters as described in the script itself:

rem ###################################################################################

rem cycleSMAT.bat

rem This script cycles a smat file and calls a tcl script which moves these cycled files

rem to a backup directory in the process working area. The “old” string in the smat file-

rem names will be replaced by the creating date of the smat file.

rem

rem These bat script can be called as a cron/at job or as action for an specific alert

rem with a time window.

rem

rem Syntax: cmd /C cycleSMAT.bat

rem

rem

call /quovadx/qdx5.3/integrator/sbin/setroot.cmd /quovadx/qdx5.3/integrator production

hcicmd -p %1 -c “%2 save_cycle %3” 1>nul: 2>&1

hcitcl /quovadx/scripts/backupSMAT.tcl %1 %2 %3 1>nul: 2>&1

You normally should use the cycleSMAT.bat script to cycle and then automatically move the files to a backup directory.

Greetings from Germany,

Dirk

[Dirk Engels]

I’ve added the archiv with the scripts again.

It contains the Windows as well as the Unix version.

Dirk

[David Marquis]

Thanks Dirk for your help! It seems to wirk, but where is it putting the backed up files?

I am running the following command:

C:Documents and Settingsadministrator.STPAULRADDesktop>cycleSMAT.bat orders to_ps in

Dave

Sorry my stupid. It it putting them in the same folder. How about appending the date onto the file?

Dave

[Dirk Engels]

David,

the files will be move into a folder backup in the process directory. Also the string old will be replaced with a timestamp.

The processing order is:

1. cycle files

2. replace the .old. – string by a time stamp and

3. move it to the backup folder in the process directory.

Of course you can move them anywhere you like. Just change the pathname in the backupSMAT.tcl file.

Dirk

[David Marquis]

Dirk Engels wrote:

David,

the files will be move into a folder backup in the process directory. Also the string old will be replaced with a timestamp.

The processing order is:

1. cycle files

2. replace the .old. – string by a time stamp and

3. move it to the backup folder in the process directory.

Of course you can move them anywhere you like. Just change the pathname in the backupSMAT.tcl file.

Dirk

Hi Dirk,

As the script is it won’t do #2 or #3. It will just over write the files with the filename.old.idx so I am a little confused as to why it doesn’t work. I can’t get it to copy the files to another location either if I modify the script path for the output.

Kind of a noob to TCL but not to other programming languages….

Dave

[Dirk Engels]

David,

that curious.

Did you check that the backupSMAT.tcl file is in the directory written in the cycleSMAT.bat file or did you change the path?

What you should do is to erase the  “1>nul: 2>&1” attachment to the commands and execute them just in the shell to see possible error messages.

See you in Dallas soon?

Dirk

[David Marquis]

Hi Dirk,

I will give that a try. Funny you mention Dallas as I have been there awhile back for class 1 training and I should probably head down for class 2. My mom also lives down there with some other family members and is always asking me to move down there as well.

Dave

[Dirk Engels]

David,

then come to the user group and visit your mom 😀

Dirk

[David Marquis]

Totally works as expect. Thanks!

Dave

[Rick Pritchett]

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Ok im trying to use the scrpits available on the site to cycle my smat files automatically.

[Rick Pritchett]

Ok im trying to use the scrpits available on the site to cycle my smat files automatically.  I have a site named test_med_01, a process named med_adt and a thread named AgiLink.

cmd /C C:quovadxcycleSMATcycleSMAT.bat med_adt AgiLink out

making sure that cycleSMAT.bat is called from the proper directy.

[Dirk Engels]

Yes, that should work.

The syntax is always “cycleSMAT.bat “.

BTW, if someone needs to cycle SMATs in different sites I’ve also a version which sets the site first. The site is then another parameter in the call.

Dirk

[Kirby Knight]

When I try to execute the backupSmat.tcl.  I get the following error.

Prozess {$1}

Thread {$2}

Content {$3}

can’t read “smats”: no such variable

   while executing

“keylget smats $filetype filename

“

[Dirk Engels]

Hi Kirby,

normally you should call the cycleSMAT.bat script with the 3 arguments (see previous post). Then it should work. The backupSMAT.tcl script will be executed from the script.

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