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<p><font size="2" face="sans-serif">We try our hardest to keep those columns static. Rarely are they changed. We are aware that folks are programming against them and we don't rearrange where things are. </font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Steve Duersch<br>
Spectrum Scale (GPFS) FVTest<br>
IBM Poughkeepsie, New York</font><br>
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<tt><font size="2">>If you build a monitoring pipeline using -Y output, make sure you test <br>
>between revisions before upgrading. The columns do have a tendency to <br>
>change from time to time.<br>
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>Cheers,<br>
>Barry<br>
>On 20/04/2016 20:02, Bryan Banister wrote:<br>
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> Apparently, though not documented in man pages or any of the GPFS docs <br>
> that I?ve read (at least that I recall), there is a ?-Y? option to <br>
> many/most GPFS commands that provides output in machine readable fashion?.<br>
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> That?s right kids? no more parsing obscure, often changed output <br>
> columns with your favorite bash/awk/python/magic.<br>
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> Why IBM would not document this is beyond me,<br>
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> -B<br>
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