Hi , i still get this error when i built a custom sensor to get Data from KlimaLogg Service

Does somebody know what is this error for ?

param (
	[string]$inputfile = "C:\ProgramData\KlimaLogg.dat1"
)

set-psdebug -strict
$ErrorActionPreference="SilentlyContinue"
$error.clear()

write-host "Start PRTG Sensor" 
write-host "Inputfile:" $Inputfile 

$inifile = get-content $inputfile

[string]$resultxml="<inifile>"
[string]$inisection=""
foreach ($line in $inifile) {
	write-host "Processing $line"
	if ($line[0] -eq "[") {
		if ($inisection -ne "") {
			write-host "Closing old inisection: $inisection"
			$resultxml+=("</$inisection>`r`n")
		}
		$inisection = $line.replace("[","").replace("]","")
		write-host "Found new inisection: $inisection"
		$resultxml+=("<$inisection>`r`n")
	}
	elseif ($line -like "*=*") {
		$key=($line.split("=")[0])
		$value=($line.split("=")[1])
		write-host "Found parameterline Key: $key    Value:$value"
		$resultxml+=("<$key>$value</$key>`r`n")
	}
	else {
		write-host "Skip line"
	}
}
$resultxml+=("</$inisection>`r`n")
$resultxml+="</inifile>"
[xml]$inixml= $resultxml
[string]$result="<prtg>`r`n"

$lastactualization = [long]($inixml.inifile.time.last_actualisation.replace("""",""))
write-host "Timestamp lastactualization: $lastactualization"
$timestampageseconds = [long](((Get-Date).touniversaltime().addseconds(-$lastactualization) -  (get-date 1.1.1900)).totalseconds)
write-host "Timestamp age in minutes $timestampageseconds"
if ($timestampageseconds -gt 120) {
	$result+="<error>1</error>`r`n"
	$result+="<text>Data to old. last update $timestampageseconds Seconds. Check Klimalogger-Service</text>`r`n"
}
else {			  
	foreach ($count in (0..8)) {
		write-host "Processing Channel $count"
		$result+="  <result>`r`n"
		$result+="    <channel>Temperature("+$count+")</channel>`r`n"
		$result+="    <value>"+$inixml.inifile.("temperature_channel_"+$count).deg_c.replace("""","")+"</value>`r`n"
		$result+="    <unit>Temperature</unit>`r`n"
		$result+="    <CustomUnit>Celsius</CustomUnit>`r`n"
		$result+="    <mode>Absolute</mode>`r`n"
		$result+="    <float>1</float>`r`n"
		$result+="  </result>`r`n"
		$result+="  <result>`r`n"
		$result+="    <channel>Humidy("+$count+")</channel>`r`n"
		$result+="    <value>"+$inixml.inifile.("humidity_channel_"+$count).percent.replace("""","")+"</value>`r`n"
		$result+="    <unit>Percent</unit>`r`n"
		$result+="    <mode>Absolute</mode>`r`n"
		$result+="  </result>`r`n"	
	}
	$result+="<text>No errors found</text>`r`n"
}
	
$result+="</prtg>"
write-host "End: ExitCode "$error.count
 
Write-host "Sending Result to output pipeline"
$result
 
if ($error) {
	#write-host "Found Errors"
	EXIT 1
}

Article Comments

Hi,

When you run this script from the commandline, what does the output look like? Is there anything after the closing </prtg> tag?


Sep, 2015 - Permalink

Hi, please take a look at this example: https://helpdesk.paessler.com/en/support/solutions/articles/76000063275-how-can-i-show-special-characters-with-exe-script-sensors

Write-Host puts out Text to Stdout and so your XML is destroyed by your logging. All what you see in the console, when you run your script manually, was send to PRTG.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Jens


Sep, 2015 - Permalink