I need to run a script that does the FOLLOWING:

Queries a server farm to find all servers in a "converged" state, counts the number of servers and then takes additional actions based on the count.

I'm starting with this:

Code: [Select]wlbs query <farm> /passw<password here> | find /c "converged"
On the farm I'm testing against the "converged" count is 16. If the count is greater than 3 then the script should proceed to run ANOTHER set of commands. If the count (output of find /c) is less than or equal to 3 then the script should terminate.

I tried this: Code: [Select] If wlbs <farm> /passw<password here> | find /c "converged" > 3 echo Greater than 3! but it doesn't work. It outputs the results to a file named "3". I'm hoping not to have to create a text file to hold the results of the find /c command.

The WLBS query is necessary but I don't have to use find if you have another suggestion.

Your help is certainly appreciated.

Thanks,

MJYou could use FOR /F to parse the output of wlbs and put it into a variable. Something like this: (I don't have a farm to TEST it on, but it will be something very like this) Of course you understand the IP and password are just examples.

Code: [Select]for /f %%A in ( ' wlbs query 10.50.100.10 /passw pass_word ^| find /c "converged" ' ) do set NumberOfConverged=%%A
if %NumberOfConverged% gtr 3 echo Greater than 3!
Notes:

Variable names are not case-sensitive: %NumberOfConverged%, %NUMBEROFCONVERGED% and %numberofconverged% are the same variable, in fact any mixture of cases is OK. I like using CamelCase personally because I think it is more readable.

In the FOR dataset (the part in the brackets) you need to escape the pipe SYMBOL by preceding it with a caret.

Also in the FOR dataset I have inserted extra spaces (which are ignored) so you can see the single quotes than enclose the command) more clearly.

In batch language the comparison operators are not > < etc (these already mean something else) they are three letters long and are not case sensitive:

EQU - equal
NEQ - not equal
LSS - less than
LEQ - less than or equal
GTR - greater than
GEQ - greater than or equal





Quote from: Salmon Trout on September 14, 2012, 01:20:27 PM

so you can see the single quotes than enclose the command