Hi,

I need help to get a script to extract the permanent hardware errors from the error log in AIX and then ignore ones that are more than 30 days old. I am redirecting errpt to a file called error_file and then doing awk -f test_script error_file. where test_script contains: #!/bin/ksh

$4 ~ /H/ { print $1, $2, $3, $4, $5, $6, $7, $8, $9, $10 }

so I get a summary of the hardware errors.But how can I get only ones newer than 30 days old? thanks in advance for help...

Let me rephrase all this. Does anybody know how I could extract the permanent hardware errors in the error log that are less than a week, or say a month old???

Post and example of the output from your script.

Here is what I get from my script:

The following hardware errors are in the error log today
************************************************** ******
0D09B489 0227123906 P H hdisk2 POLLED STATUS FAILURE
3074FEB7 0227123906 T H fscsi1 ADAPTER ERROR
3074FEB7 0227123906 T H fscsi1 ADAPTER ERROR
3074FEB7 0227123906 T H fscsi1 ADAPTER ERROR
3074FEB7 0227123906 T H fscsi1 ADAPTER ERROR
B8113DD1 0227123706 T H fcs1 LINK ERROR

but these are all old errors that have been there for a while. Is there a way to take apart that date field and just show new errors or nothing, like a comment saying no new errors today etc?

To only show new errors every time you invoke the script
I suggest you store the line count (wc –l)
and only check from that line onwards.

if new count is less than previous_count i.e. New file
then previous_count=0
If no change in line count then exit else
head +$((previous_count+1)) $error_log | egrep ‘ERROR|FAIL’
and save the new line count

Why not use errpt -s mmddhhmmyy as the excerpt from the man page shows ?


-s StartDate
Specifies all records posted on and after the StartDate variable, where the StartDate variable has
the format mmddhhmmyy (month, day, hour, minute, and year).