Getting Data In

Scripted input for iostat only ingesting headers

Sivrat
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I've added the Splunk TA for Unix/Linux to my indexers and have been trying to get iostat data feeding in from the indexers.

The script run, but only the headers are present
Sample _raw:
Device rReq_PS wReq_PS rKB_PS wKB_PS avgWaitMillis avgSvcMillis bandwUtilPct

Running 'iostat -xk 1 2' as the script is setup to do does return results.

Running the script normally/debug only shows the headers output to screen, but the debug file show it pulling recording the statistics:
debug--iostat.sh file Output:

 

Linux 4.18.0-147.8.1.el8_1.x86_64 (hostname)       06/07/2021      _x86_64_        (64 CPU)

avg-cpu:  %user   %nice %system %iowait  %steal   %idle
          16.16    0.00    3.60    1.60    0.00   78.63

Device            r/s     w/s     rkB/s     wkB/s   rrqm/s   wrqm/s  %rrqm  %wrqm r_await w_await aqu-sz rareq-sz wareq-sz  svctm  %util
sda             52.92  212.80   1675.92  26670.15     7.49   152.92  12.40  41.81    2.40    0.46   0.12    31.67   125.33   0.35   9.19
sdc            138.11   22.04  13308.18   5149.92     0.09     0.26   0.07   1.15    0.33    2.62   0.03    96.36   233.70   0.57   9.19
sdb            548.22  401.94  56049.28  19294.08     0.87   665.61   0.16  62.35    0.10    0.12   0.11   102.24    48.00   0.08   7.70
dm-0            42.67  324.87   1604.43  26506.50     0.00     0.00   0.00   0.00    2.36    0.27   0.06    37.60    81.59   0.24   8.96
dm-1            17.87   40.86     71.48    163.44     0.00     0.00   0.00   0.00    3.01    1.05   0.10     4.00     4.00   0.07   0.39
dm-2             0.00    0.00      0.00      0.21     0.00     0.00   0.00   0.00   40.68    4.93   0.00    81.97   239.35   0.26   0.00

avg-cpu:  %user   %nice %system %iowait  %steal   %idle
          19.52    0.00    3.07    1.08    0.00   76.33

Device            r/s     w/s     rkB/s     wkB/s   rrqm/s   wrqm/s  %rrqm  %wrqm r_await w_await aqu-sz rareq-sz wareq-sz  svctm  %util
sda              0.00   11.00      0.00    150.00     0.00     0.00   0.00   0.00    0.00    0.09   0.00     0.00    13.64   1.00   1.10
sdc              0.00    0.00      0.00      0.00     0.00     0.00   0.00   0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00     0.00     0.00   0.00   0.00
sdb           6825.00   50.00  27312.00    232.00     0.00     0.00   0.00   0.00    0.32    0.04   0.83     4.00     4.64   0.15  99.80
dm-0             0.00   11.00      0.00    150.00     0.00     0.00   0.00   0.00    0.00    0.09   0.00     0.00    13.64   1.09   1.20
dm-1             0.00    0.00      0.00      0.00     0.00     0.00   0.00   0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00     0.00     0.00   0.00   0.00
dm-2             0.00    0.00      0.00      0.00     0.00     0.00   0.00   0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00     0.00     0.00   0.00   0.00

Cmd = [iostat -xk 1 2];  | awk 'BEGIN {print "Device          rReq_PS      wReq_PS        rKB_PS        wKB_PS  avgWaitMillis   avgSvcMillis   bandwUtilPct"} /^$/ {next} /^Device:/ {for (i = 1; i <= NF; i++) {if ($i == "svctm") { svctm=i; } else if ($i == "%util") {putil=i;} } reportOrd++; next} (reportOrd<2) {next} {device=$1; rReq_PS=$4; wReq_PS=$5; rKB_PS=$6; wKB_PS=$7; avgWaitMillis=$10; avgSvcMillis=$svctm; bandwUtilPct=$putil} {printf "%-10s  %11s  %11s  %12s  %12s  %13s  %13s  %13s\n", device, rReq_PS, wReq_PS, rKB_PS, wKB_PS, avgWaitMillis, avgSvcMillis, bandwUtilPct}' header="Device          rReq_PS      wReq_PS        rKB_PS        wKB_PS  avgWaitMillis   avgSvcMillis   bandwUtilPct"

 


 The only thing I can think is that there is some issue with the awk statement maybe? So I be manually adjusting the script?

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Sivrat
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Found my own answer - TA was very out of date. 8.3.0 is working

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