Hi Risto,

The array is intialized and created as the input of SEC. It is of the Json
format.

Thanks.

Yuheng


On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 4:29 AM, Risto Vaarandi <risto.vaara...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> 2014-08-18 22:37 GMT+03:00 Yuheng Du <yuhe...@clemson.edu>:
>
>> Hi Guys,
>>
>> Is there any method to the return value of a script in SingleWithScript
>> rule?
>>
>> I have 8 readings in an array and I want to return which (one or many)
>> specific items in that array is exceptional using a perl script. Then
>> based on the return value of the script, I want to decide my actions.
>>
>> So I need to return an integer to my rule in order to decide the action.
>>
>> Can I use SingleWithScript rule to do this? Or is there any other
>> methods?
>>
>
> Where exactly is this array created and how it is initialized? Since there
> is no straightforward way to fetch a child process exit code from rules, it
> might be simpler to have a PerlFunc pattern for executing the perl code and
> setting the array. However, if the perl code involves time-consuming
> external queries, I'd not recommend PerlFunc pattern, since it is not
> executed asynchronously. In that case, you could try the 'spawn' action for
> executing the perl script, and communicate with SEC by generating synthetic
> events from perl script.
> If you prefer to use SingleWithScript, you can also use the following
> strategy -- write the exit code value into a file, and have 'if () else ()'
> statements in your action list for executing different actions based on the
> content of the file.
> hope this helps,
> risto
>
>
>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> best,
>>
>> Yuheng
>>
>>
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