Black Box Value-Line and Advanced Console Servers, LES1332A # dos2unix /etc/config/rc.local, # cd

# dos2unix /etc/config/rc.local

Another scenario would be to call another custom script from the /etc/config/rc.local file, making sure that your custom script will run whenever the system is booted.

15.1.2 Running custom scripts when alerts are triggered

Whenever an alert gets triggered, specific scripts get called. These scripts all reside in /etc/scripts/. Below is a list of the default scripts that get run for each applicable alert:

-For a connection alert (when a user connects or disconnects from a port or network host): /etc/scripts/portmanager-user-alert(for port connections) or /etc/scripts/sdt-user-alert(for host connections)

-For a signal alert (when a signal on a port changes state): /etc/scripts/portmanager-signal-alert

-For a pattern match alert (when a specific regular expression is found in the serial ports character stream): /etc/scripts/portmanager-pattern-alert

-For a UPS status alert (when the UPS power status changes between on line, on battery, and low battery): /etc/scripts/ups-status-alert

-For a environmental, power and alarm sensor alerts (temperature, humidity, power load, and battery charge alerts): /etc/scripts/environmental-alert

-For an interface failover alert: /etc/scripts/interface-failover-alert

All of these scripts do a check to see whether you have created a custom script to run instead. The code that does this check is shown below (an extract from the file /etc/scripts/portmanager-pattern-alert):

#If there's a user-configured script, run it instead scripts[0]="/etc/config/scripts/pattern-alert.${ALERT_PORTNAME}" scripts[1]="/etc/config/scripts/portmanager-pattern-alert"

for (( i=0 ; i < ${#scripts[@]} ; i++ )); do if [ -f "${scripts[$i]}" ]; then

exec /bin/sh "${scripts[$i]}"

fi done

This code shows that there are two alternative scripts that can be run instead of the default one. This

code first checks whether a file "/etc/config/scripts/pattern-alert.${ALERT_PORTNAME}" exists. The

variable ${ALERT_PORTNAME} must be replaced with "port01" or "port13" or whichever port the alert should run for. If this file cannot be found, the script checks whether the file "/etc/config/scripts/portmanager-pattern-alert"exists. If either of these files exists, the script calls the exec command on the first file that it finds and runs that custom file/script instead.

As an example, you can copy the /etc/scripts/portmanager-pattern-alertscript file to /etc/config/scripts/portmanager-pattern-alert:

#cd /

#mkdir /etc/config/scripts (if the directory does not already exist)

#cp /etc/scripts/portmanager-pattern-alert /etc/config/scripts/portmanager-pattern-alert

The next step will be to edit the new script file. First, open the file /etc/config/scripts/portmanager- pattern-alertusing vi (or any other editor), and remove the lines that check for a custom script (the code from above). This will prevent the new custom script from repeatedly calling itself. After these lines have been removed, edit the file, or add any additional scripting to the file.

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