Monthly Archives: May 2014

Revision 659 – Added a JAASTOOL.BAT helper file

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On Dom’s request, I added a JAASTOOL.BAT file similar to VICT.BAT, VIFT.BAT, VIUPLOAD.BAT, etc to get over the nuisance of finding the install path and using it to run the JAR file.

Sure, people slag Java as though it’s as bad as PHP, but it really does run everywhere: Unix, Linux, Windows. Same code. The hard part is looking for the java.exe. If the problem is simply “find the file ‘java.exe’ on your computer”, and you cannot find a file on your PC, perhaps you should be ashamed! In cases where we are simply really, really tired/jet-lagged, this script iterates the most common known locations, and when upon finding the JAVA.EXE, uses it to execute the JAASTOOL.JAR file with the options given on the command line.

Yeah, it’s still a command line. I’m not so good at GUIs.

Revision 657 – Cisco Show Zone

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Added the ability to parse nicknames from a Cisco Show Zone. In short: blindly parse a “show zone” output, and if the text stream isn’t overly butchered, nicknames will be detected and imported to the VICT space for writing using -n file.csv or --nicknameout=file.csv

in fibrechannel-parsers version 0.3.39, a parser was added for the result of a cisco show zone:

zone name SANASVR001_FabA vsan 100
  fcalias name Oracle_123466 vsan 100
    pwwn 10:00:00:00:c9:12:34:66

  fcalias name HDS0123457_CL7F vsan 100
    pwwn 50:06:0e:80:12:34:56:78

This differs from a show device-alias database or a show fcalias in that the zone entries are present, and may contain vsan verbs. Implemented as a stream, it should be a bit more robust and accepting than a pure-scripted variant, so that content provided by (oh, my favorite!) a user cutting a session out to log and submitting that (because it’s just as good… nah, with the ANSI markers and color formatting, it’s better!). This isn’t a substitution for ignoring the very detail when (not) reading directions, but it should give us a fighting chance.

The addition is available in the same array of parsers, so it works without any new user-config. For example, list like the parsing of cisco device-alias database as a simple text stream (from FTP, HTTP, or FILE:// URLs), a simple --nickname= or -N will work:

java -jar vict.jar --nickname=file:///file/name.txt

(or the convenience fallback)
java -jar vict.jar --nickname=/file/name.txt

(or in short-form options)
java -jar vict.jar -N name.txt

(or in Windows)
VICT.BAT -N name.txt

The matching actions in the main toolkit using the fibrechannel-parsers project involves a test case to ensure the code is resident and functioning; by that method, whatever version of fibrechannel-parsers is found during the build will offer at minimum a functioning version of this extension.