I am trying to use the Elog Utility to import a few thousand entries. So 
far I have run into a few problems.

a) Cannot get elog utility to speak to elogd on port 8080. Even though I 
use the -p 8080 option with elog. I was able to get it to work when I 
moved my server to port 80.

b) I cannot get elog to work with and attributes or logbooks that contain 
spaces. Please refer the the following example:

elog -v -h scotland.ccs.yorku.ca -p 80 -a "Station Number"="CC001" -a "Mac 
Address"="000874fdc895" -a "Hostname"="cc001.cnscommons.yorku.ca" -a "IP 
Address"="10.6.10.52" -a "Manufacturer"="Dell" -a "Model Line"="Optiplex" -
a "Model Number"="GX270" -a "Monitor Manufacturer"="Dell" -a "Monitor 
Model"="E151FP" -a "Memory"="512MB" -a "CPU Speed"="2.6GHz" -a "Hard 
Drive"="40GB" -a "Service Count"="-" -l WSC2 -u charles xxxxx "DD/MM/YY: 
Change Description"

This line executes fine. Except only Hostname, Manufacturer, Memory and 
text are populated in the record. All the rest of the fields are blank.

c) the only way I was able to get the transaction to work was by reducing 
the size of the log book to a single word (ie WSC2).

Do I have to reduce all my attributes to single words? Or am I missing 
something simple to use as a delimiter for entry??

Thanks in advance

-Charles-

> I am trying to use the Elog Utility to import a few thousand entries. So 
> far I have run into a few problems.
> 
> a) Cannot get elog utility to speak to elogd on port 8080. Even though I 
> use the -p 8080 option with elog. I was able to get it to work when I 
> moved my server to port 80.
> 
> b) I cannot get elog to work with and attributes or logbooks that contain 
> spaces. Please refer the the following example:
> 
> elog -v -h scotland.ccs.yorku.ca -p 80 -a "Station Number"="CC001" -a "Mac 
> Address"="000874fdc895" -a "Hostname"="cc001.cnscommons.yorku.ca" -a "IP 
> Address"="10.6.10.52" -a "Manufacturer"="Dell" -a "Model Line"="Optiplex" -
> a "Model Number"="GX270" -a "Monitor Manufacturer"="Dell" -a "Monitor 
> Model"="E151FP" -a "Memory"="512MB" -a "CPU Speed"="2.6GHz" -a "Hard 
> Drive"="40GB" -a "Service Count"="-" -l WSC2 -u charles xxxxx "DD/MM/YY: 
> Change Description"
> 
> This line executes fine. Except only Hostname, Manufacturer, Memory and 
> text are populated in the record. All the rest of the fields are blank.
> 
> c) the only way I was able to get the transaction to work was by reducing 
> the size of the log book to a single word (ie WSC2).
> 
> Do I have to reduce all my attributes to single words? Or am I missing 
> something simple to use as a delimiter for entry??
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> -Charles-

As a followup, this occurs not only in the Linux environment, but also under 
Windows XP. I get the same results...

-Charles-

> > a) Cannot get elog utility to speak to elogd on port 8080. Even though I 
> > use the -p 8080 option with elog. I was able to get it to work when I 
> > moved my server to port 80.
> 
> That problem has been fixed in revision 1.16 from Feb. 19th. Please get the
> newest version from release 2.5.2 issued today.
> 
> > b) I cannot get elog to work with and attributes or logbooks that contain 
> > spaces. Please refer the the following example:
> > 
> > elog -v -h scotland.ccs.yorku.ca -p 80 -a "Station Number"="CC001" -a "Mac 
> > Address"="000874fdc895" -a "Hostname"="cc001.cnscommons.yorku.ca" -a "IP 
> > Address"="10.6.10.52" -a "Manufacturer"="Dell" -a "Model Line"="Optiplex" -
> > a "Model Number"="GX270" -a "Monitor Manufacturer"="Dell" -a "Monitor 
> > Model"="E151FP" -a "Memory"="512MB" -a "CPU Speed"="2.6GHz" -a "Hard 
> > Drive"="40GB" -a "Service Count"="-" -l WSC2 -u charles xxxxx "DD/MM/YY: 
> > Change Description"
> 
> There was also some bug which has been fixed, plus you need following syntax:
> 
> elog -h ... -p 8080 -a "Station Number=CC001" ...
> 
> note the "" are around the whole attribute=value string, not only the attribute.

Steve,

Thank you for the updates!!!

everything works great... -p 8080 and all my attribs get set. 

The only part that does not work is -l "Log Book" the -l variable has to stay as 
one word. If I submit 2 words (in quotes) it only looks for a logbook of the first 
word and fails.

-Charles-

> Version 2.5.2 of ELOG has been released today. It contains CSV (comma
> separated values) import and export, as well as XML export (through the
> "Find" page). Since these features are new, I would appreciate some feedback
> on how this works in different environments. I made sure I can import data
> from Excel and Outlook (like my address book), but I have no experience with
> other applications.
> 
> As with the XML export, I'm not sure if the format I chose is a good one.
> People working more with XML should tell me if it should be changed.

I was able to find the export feature under find. Could you let me know where 
the import feature is? Or how I turn it on.

-Charles-