[augeas-devel] [Puppet Users] Augeas lens for zabbix agent config files?

[Walter Heck]

Thanks for the pointers Dominic, I'll check them out later this week
and report back with my findings!

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 11:34, Dominic Cleal <dcleal at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi Walter,
>
> [ CCing the augeas-devel list, as that's the best place for Augeas lens
> problems and help ]
>
> On 22/01/12 20:48, Walter Heck wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm trying to come up with a lens for the zabbix agent config files. I
>> find the lens language untransparent at best, so I'm struggeling to
>> figure out what's up. The debugging possibilities are extremely
>> limited. Here's what I have now:
>
> For debugging, I'd strongly recommend creating a test file, which you
> can do this simply with your existing Zabbix config.  I've created a
> sample here that uses the head -n25 output you pasted - I suggest you
> fill in the rest:
>  https://gist.github.com/1662040
>
> Store it in lenses/tests/test_zabbix_agent.aug and then you can run:
>  augparse -I lenses/ lenses/tests/test_zabbix_agent.aug
>
> (with your new lens under the lenses directory)
>
> No output means the lens has checked out fine and the output tree (in
> the bottom half of the test) matches the input file at the top.
>
>> And the augeas output (all empty):
>> ==
>> [/etc/puppet] # augparse /usr/share/augeas/lenses/contrib/zabbix_agent.aug
>> [/etc/puppet] # augtool -e ls /files/etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf
>> ==
>
> Since the output of head -n25 works perfectly for me, I suspect the
> problem might be parsing something in the remainder of the file.
>
> Try running "print /augeas//error" from within augtool and see if you
> get /files/etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf listed.  This wiki page
> explains how to parse the parse errors:
>  http://augeas.net/page/Tracking_down_errors
>
> There are some other useful tutorials about creating lenses, the
> ambiguity problems you might hit and other subjects on the wiki:
>  http://augeas.net/page/Main_Page
>
> If you manage to solve it, please do consider sending your new lens (and
> accompanying test) upstream to the augeas-devel list, we'd love to
> include it.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> --
> Dominic Cleal
> Red Hat Consulting
> m: +44 (0)7817 878113



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