HP Proliant SmartArray nagios check

[Oliver Fromme]

Søren Klintrup wrote:
 > Edwin Groothuis wrote:
 > > [...]
 > > To overcome the problem of many of [Tt][Hh][Ee][Ss][Ee] kind of
 > > string, you can pipe the output through tr(1) so that it at least
 > > is human-readable (instead of the minimal requirement of being a
 > > cyborg :-)
 > > 
 > >     [~] edwin at k7>echo "TtHhEeSsEe" | tr A-Z a-z
 > >     tthheessee
 > [...]
 > As for using 'i' as an option on sed, it doesn't seem to work on FreeBSD 
 > 6.2 (havn't tested on others, since theres no reason if it doesn't work 
 > on 6.2 :),

sed doesn't support the "i" option for regexps (I think
it's an extension of gnu-sed only).

 > the tr A-Z a-z worked like a charm though, and it's readable 
 > again.

Very careful here.  Character rages like the above are
locale-dependant.  They are only guaranteed to work as
expected in the C locale.  Try this:

$ export LANG=lt_LT.ISO8859-4
$ echo FOOBAR | tr A-Z a-z
f¿¿baq

Therefore character ranges should be avoided in scripts.
They break for people with certain locale settings.
The portable solution is to use character classes:

$ echo FOOBAR | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]'
foobar

Details can be found in the tr(1) manual page which
explains the problem with A-Z a-z.

Best regards
   Oliver

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