Hi all. It seems that older SLAX implementations dont have the ability to redefine variable (Juniper is calling them immutable variables). This is apparently fixed in 1.1 on JunOS12+ boxes with something called a mutable variable (defined with mvar instead of var) but all of the boxes I am using are not on JunOS12+ yet.
Has anyone found a way to collect a whole bunch of information, and then display it at the end of the script, rather than duplicating their output code 50 times to handle the various exceptions? e.g. a script I am writing grabs the tx/rx figures for optics and lists them, along with the description of the interface, so I can run my op script and get a list of power levels, grep for destination devices etc and see whats happening with my circuits. But there are a couple of exceptions that I hit along the way: 1) Descriptions arent always on the physical interface, so if theres no description there I need to look at a logical interface, which is usually unit 0 in my case 2) SONET interfaces dont use the same "variable" to store the rx power figure as ethernet interfaces, so depending on the interface type I need to look at a different variable for the rx power figure To handle these exceptions would be quite easy if I could simply use a bunch of IF blocks to test for the various locations of the information I want, set them in to variables, and then at the end dump it out to the screen. But without being able to redefine a variable, and with variables defined inside an IF block not being accessible outside of that IF block, I will need to reproduce my output code numerous times. Anyone know of a solution? Thanks Tom _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp
