Process Event handler to fire external script

[MattFox]

Phil, woiuld a config file in the .ssh directory for ssh keys work in this case?
I do that and try SSH'ing manually first to make sure the remote ID is authenticated and that I go straight through with no issue.

[phildunlap]

You could try an absolute path instead of a ~/, like /home/mango/.ssh/id_rsa

[khuang]

Ok, I think providing the full path worked. Thanks. Interesting that ~/.ssh/id_rsa is provided by default for the private key field but does not work.

For the set command field, is that where I could execute my shell script? For example:

[MattFox]

That should work as usually the home directory is the default location a user logs in as unless stated otherwise in the user profile. This is assuming you've kept it in the /home/mango directory.. All else fails, absolute paths shouldn't fail you.

[khuang]

Yes, the script did fire after doing what Phil suggested (to create a Set Point event handler). Changing the value of the target data point caused the set command of the SSH data point to fire. Unfortunately, I get the same errors as before when I had my process event handler.

[MattFox]

Since that's the case it's likely best you find the causes of them through virtualenv.
If they have env paths, echo them in the bash file. This will tell you if your ssh connection is inheriting all of the required information.

[khuang]

Actually I mispoke - my set point event handler is not firing. It was the old process event handler that was firing that I forgot to deactivate. So now I am trying to set my ssh data point through the set point event handler.

This is what I have for the set point event handler ("MangoES - Trigger" is the SSH datapoint)"

It does not look like the event is firing though because my SSH datapoint is N/A.

[MattFox]

@khuang Is there no information in logs??
Also enable logging on the ssh datasource and tail -f the log file. Would be interesting to see if anything comes through at all.
EDIT: check your syslogs as well.

[khuang]

There isn't anything in the sys logs but tail -f for the session log file of the datasource gives me:

So it does look my test script is running but when I try to flip the bit back to 0 for my ssh data point, it just automatically executes my set point handler again and sets it back to 1. The set point handler shouldn't be activating unless there is a change from 0->1 for my source.

[MattFox]

@khuang Make sure your point handler has normal as 0. also ensure the script to fire box when returning to normal is empty.

[khuang]

@mattfox What do you mean by setting the normal as 0? Do you mean creating an inactive action and scripting return 0?

Is this what you mean:

[MattFox]

No set inactive action to none. From what I gather you've got the event to fire on change.. What's the logic you're after? if something goes high fire this script? Need more info to diagnose how to set an inactive region.
EDIT: Just read above. Get the point in context and check the value,

if ( point.last(1,0)[0].value == 0 && point.value == 1 )
{
 return true; //fire handler
}
return false; //don't fire handler

That way it checks if the point has changed the right way and then only returns true for that; otherwise it returns false;
Ideally just set a high limit and set it to 1. The event will fire on 1 or above and return to normal on zero.

[phildunlap]

Or, if the source point is binary, use a state detector on true and like Fox said, no inactive action.

[khuang]

@mattfox said in Process Event handler to fire external script:

if ( point.last(1,0)[0].value == 0 && point.value == 1 )
{
return true; //fire handler
}

The logic that I am after is that it fires my script but I do not want the scripts to continuously fire.
Right now there are two problems:

1. the set point handler is triggering all the time (the reason why I believe it is triggering all the time is because my set point cannot be set back to 0) and setting my ssh data point to true all the time. It should execute once and be done. Right now the data point is stuck at 1, and I am unable to change it back to 0.
   
2. my script which is in the set command of the ssh data point still is not executing, which is the purpose behind me pursuing ssh datasources and data points

EDIT: I recreated the SSH datapoint, and set point handler and I got the set command to fire but at a 6 second delay. It also looks like the entire MangoES box is lagging at the same rate.

EDIT2: After restarting the MangoES box and deactivating several other data sources that have various polling and triggers associated with it, the CPU reduced to 360% (8 cores). Before the CPU was being hit too hard so the script was not running correctly.

[MattFox]

For your virtual datapoint, if it's set to logging all it'll continuously update/trigger the event.
Set logging to update on point value change only as you only need it to work when it changes between 1 and 0, not 1 and 1.

[phildunlap]

It would depend on whatever event detector has been placed on the point.

[MattFox]

@phildunlap Also true...

[khuang]

Currently for the event detector I have it as "when the state is one". So I guess "when the state is one" means 0 to 1 and 1 to 1?

What if I created another event detector for "when the state is zero" and kill the process that way?

[MattFox]

Let's see a screenshot of your datapoint settings.
From what I gather, you have an SSH source which runs a python script which then sets the value of the binary datapoint. If that point is set to one, fire an event handler.
Does that sound right?

[khuang]

Yes, that is correct.

Here is a screenshot of my virtual datapoint which serves as the source for firing the event handler:

I manually set the virtual datapoint so it only goes from 0 to 1 or 1 to 0, and not 0 to 0 or 1 to 1.

This is my SSH datapoint which gets set by the event handler. I have it get scripted to return true because I don't care what the value of this data point is but just that the set command gets fired: