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Test Message Action

The TEST action is not yet implemented on UNIX. To perform this type of processing, you can execute a script as follows, using the action command to test the contents of a previously set variable.

#                                             
# Args:  1 - The value to be tested for       
#        2 - The variable to test             
#                                             
# Results: Equal - return 0.                  
#          False - return 1.                  
#                                             
#       
var='$'`echo $2`    
# Test if the variable has been defined first 
if [ ! `eval echo $var` ]; then exit 1        
fi                                            
# It has been defined, test the value         
if [ "$1" = `eval echo $var` ]; then          
   exit 0                                     
fi                                            
# Not EQUAL exit false                        
exit 1

The following is an example of the Message Record Action - Detail screen defined to test if a variable SERVERB has the value of DOWN.