Is there any way to do what I'm trying to do (gather stats across modules and
report them in one message)?
David Lang
On Wed, 5 Aug 2015, Botond Botyanszki wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> Module variables are per module instance.
>
> If you do set_var('foo') in one block, get_var('foo') won't return the
> same value in the others.
>
> Regards,
> Botond
>
> ps: sorry, I lost the original email needed to reply to
>
>
> On Mon, 3 Aug 2015 19:06:34 +0200
> Botond Botyanszki <b...@nxlog.org> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 3 Aug 2015 06:25:59 -0700 (PDT)
>> David Lang <da...@lang.hm> wrote:
>>
>>> after the first mark message is generated, and these three lines are
>>> executed
>>>
>>> Exec set_var('logcount', 5 );
>>> Exec set_var('logcount', ( get_var('logcount') + 1 ) );
>>> Exec set_var('maxsize', size($raw_event));
>>>
>>> why are these two variables undef?
>>
>> I just tested and it works as expected:
>>
>> <14>Aug 3 16:48:40 xxx @cee:{"EventTime":"2015-08-03
>> 16:48:40","Hostname":"xxx","Message":"","SeverityValue":2,"Severity":"","SourceName":"","ProcessID":13785,"EventRece
>> ivedTime":"2015-08-03
>> 16:48:40","SourceModuleName":"","SourceModuleType":"","longestline":null,"logcount":null}
>> <14>Aug 3 16:49:40 xxx @cee:{"EventTime":"2015-08-03
>> 16:49:40","Hostname":"xxx","Message":"","SeverityValue":2,"Severity":"","SourceName":"","ProcessID":13785,"EventRece
>> ivedTime":"2015-08-03
>> 16:49:40","SourceModuleName":"","SourceModuleType":"","longestline":291,"logcount":6}
>> <14>Aug 3 16:50:40 xxx @cee:{"EventTime":"2015-08-03
>> 16:50:40","Hostname":"xxx","Message":"","SeverityValue":2,"Severity":"","SourceName":"","ProcessID":13785,"EventRece
>> ivedTime":"2015-08-03
>> 16:50:40","SourceModuleName":"","SourceModuleType":"","longestline":287,"logcount":6}
>>
>> Just to clear up possible confusion:
>>
>> $logcount refers to a field in the event. get_var() and set_var() operate
>> with module variables that are not visible in the event data as a field
>> so the following are two different things:
>> Exec set_var('logcount', 42);
>> vs
>> Exec $logcount = 42;
>>
>> Regards,
>> Botond
>
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