Passing parameters/variables

[buzzzo]

Hi

How could I pass variables to an events with shell plugin ?

Something like hostname of worker or some other info to let job/event aware of external info .

Thx

[jhuckaby]

All event parameters become environment variables in your jobs.

You can define parameters at the Plugin level, and then fill them in (give them values) at the event level. So maybe what you want is to copy the Shell Plugin, and add some text fields or dropdown menus, whatever you need.

Then, when you edit your event and assign your new Plugin to it, you can fill out the new fields:

This then becomes an environment variable you can use in your shell script. Note that it is upper-cased, so in this case it would be $WORKER_HOST. Example use:

# Job ID: jlsii07ft81
# Event Title: Twatter
# Hostname: mini.local
# Date/Time: 2024/02/11 21:33:05 (GMT-8)

HELLO server01

# Job completed successfully at 2024/02/11 21:33:05 (GMT-8).
# End of log.

Good luck!

[raags]

Is it possible to pass the parameters when running an event on-demand? For e.g. you may want to customise the behaviour of the script, lets say you run a script to backfill last 1 hour data - you want to customize that for next run to 1 day, etc - this will be useful for Ondemand events.

[jhuckaby]

Yes. See the docs.

[raags]

But is this possible via the UI - I don't see any option in the UI - when I click on run, it instantly runs the job.

[jhuckaby]

I don't understand. You don't see any option in the UI? Look at the screenshot posted above in this discussion. You can edit any parameters in the UI per event. Just adjust the parameters in the UI and then scroll down and click Run. You don't have the save the event. It runs the job with whatever the parameters are set to in the UI.

[raags]

Ok I see it now - although bit unintituve. The user will have to go to edit the event, update the params and then click on "Run Now". Also they shouldn't click save, otherwise the original default would get overriden. I would be nice if the parms could be run from the "Schedule" tab by clicking on "Run".

[jhuckaby]

Cronicle v2 will have something along those lines. See this discussion for more details.