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The new XML file sites.xml can be generated from the above database using the script create_sites-xml.pl:
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51cottrell@pinger:~>bin/create_sites-xml.pl -help
Creates the sites.xml PingER configuration from a database
Usage: bin/create_sites-xml.pl [options]
Options:
--template=s template file to use for xml creation
--host=s hostname of database location
--port=s port number for database
--db=s database name
--user=s username for database
--password=s password for database
--ability=i whether to get enabled or disabled landmarks
default = 1 (1=enabled, 0=disabled)
--help this help message
Purpose:
Script to create the sites.xml file as per
http://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/display/IEPM/PingER+Sites+XML
it will poll a mysql database and write out the xml file from a template.
all this script does is to construct a useable datastructure to populate
the template file and spits it out to STDOUT
Output:
The xml file of landmarks is written to STDOUT
Examples:
create_sites-xml.pl > /afs/slac/www/comp/net/wan-mon/tulip/sites.xml
create_sites-xml.pl --ability 0 > /afs/slac/www/comp/net/wan-mon/tulip/sites-disabled.xml
create_sites-xml.pl --help
Version=Version 1.1, 12/10/09; Author: Qasim Bilal; Maintainer: Les Cottrell
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