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+# Allows for nodes that don't have rsyslog set up to remotely log messages
+# to the xCAT management server.
+# this is primarily used for the xCAT runimage=http://.... commands where
+# the xCAT boot kernel can run remote commands.  In this case you may want 
+# to log messages to the syslog so we can view what is happening on our nodes.
+#
+# In particular, if we had a remote image that had a bunch of firmware flashes
+# then we want to let the syslog know that we're updating them all.
+#
+# To use this function do the following.  
+# 1.  update policy table to add the commands:
+# ours is set like this:
+# "4.9",,,"xcatlogmsg",,,,"allow",,
+# "4.10",,,"xcatlogerr",,,,"allow",,
+#
+# 2.  Use a cool awk script to send the message on whatever host you have.
+# in our case we created an awk script called: xcatremotelog.awk
+# #!/usr/bin/awk -f
+# BEGIN {
+#  localport = 301
+#  type = ARGV[1] # the type can be error or warn or just log
+#  msg = ARGV[2]  # this is the message
+#
+#  if (type == "err" ) {
+#        cmd = "xcatlogerr"
+#  }else{
+#        cmd = "xcatlogmsg"
+#  }
+#
+#  ns = "/inet/tcp/0/127.0.0.1/" localport
+#  canexit = 0
+#
+#  print "<xcatrequest>" |& ns
+#  print "<command>"  cmd  "</command>" |& ns
+#  print "<arg>" msg "</arg>" |& ns
+#  print "</xcatrequest>" |& ns
+#
+#  close(ns)
+#  exit 0
+#}
+#
+# 3.  In whatever script you want to log in create two functions:
+# #!/bin/sh
+#
+#log()
+#{
+#        xcatremotelog.awk log "$1"
+#}
+#
+#err() 
+#{
+#        xcatremotelog.awk err "$1"
+#}
+# log "This is a message a node will send to the xCAT masternode syslog" 
+# err "This is an error a node will send to the xCAT masternode syslog" 
+# QED
+
+package xCAT_plugin::logger;
+use strict;
+use xCAT::NodeRange qw/noderange/;
+use xCAT::Utils;
+use Sys::Syslog;
+
+
+
+##########################################################################
+# Command handler method from tables
+##########################################################################
+sub handled_commands {
+  return {
+	'xcatlogmsg' => "logger",
+	'xcatlogerr' => "logger",
+  } 
+}
+
+##########################################################################
+# Process request from xCat daemon
+##########################################################################
+sub process_request {
+	my $request = shift;
+	my $callback = shift;
+	my $noderange;
+	my $image;
+	# the request can come from node or some one running command
+	# on xCAT mgmt server
+	# argument could also be image...
+
+	# if request comes from user:
+	if($request->{node}){
+		$noderange = $request->{node};
+		
+	# if request comes from node post script .awk file.
+	}elsif($request->{'_xcat_clienthost'}){
+		$noderange = $request->{'_xcat_clienthost'};
+	}else{
+		$callback->({error=>["Well Kemosabi, I can't figure out who you are."],errorcode=>[1]});
+		return;
+	}
+
+	if(!$noderange){
+		my $usage_string="Missing Noderange\n";
+		$callback->({error=>[$usage_string],errorcode=>[1]});
+		$request = {};
+		return;
+	}
+	my $command = $request->{command}->[0];
+	if($command eq "xcatlogmsg"){
+		return logmsg("log",$request,$callback,$noderange);
+	}elsif($command eq "xcatlogerr"){
+		return logmsg("err",$request, $callback,$noderange);
+	}else{
+		$callback->({error=>["this logging code is not supported"], errorcode=>[127]});
+		$request = {};
+		return;
+	}
+}
+
+sub logmsg{
+	my $type = shift;
+	if ($type eq 'err') {
+		$type = "ERROR: ";	
+	}else{
+		$type = "";
+	}
+	my $req = shift;
+	my $callback = shift;
+	my $noderange = shift;
+	my $arg = $req->{arg};
+				
+	xCAT::MsgUtils->message("S","$type" . join(',',$noderange->[0]) . ": " . join(',',$arg->[0]));
+}
+
+
+
+
+1;