Sed-fu
We all know how incredible and flexible sed really is and recently I had another chance to experience its coolness in the field when one of our Qlogic Sanbox switch lost zone configuration completely. So obvious solution in such cases is just to restore from the backups but since it wasn’t possible, it’s a shame but there weren’t any on my hands, I simply restored zones information from another switch in the same fabric. That worked nicely with one drawback – lack of alias information. Luckily we had an old zone backup with aliases that could be used to restore the missing part of our configuration. Nevertheless, the information in that file was a bit outdated but in our situation it was better than nothing. From the inside the file I needed to parse had the following structure:
<ZoneAlias name="zone_name1">
<ZoneAliasMember>
Memeber1_WWN
</ZoneAliasMember>
<ZoneAliasMember>
Memeber2_WWN
</ZoneAliasMember>
</ZoneAlias>
<ZoneAlias name="zone_name2">
<ZoneAliasMember>
Memeber1_WWN
</ZoneAliasMember>
</ZoneAlias>
So to parse it to the format required by the switch I wrote a simple sed script that saved me from doing a monkey’s job and restoring everything manually:
for zn in `cat zoneset_with_alias.xml | \
sed -n ‘/<ZoneAlias/,/<\/ZoneAlias>/ s/.*name=\”\(.*\)\”.*/\1/p’`; \
do for m in `cat zoneset_with_alias.xml | \
sed -n ‘/<ZoneAlias name=”‘$zn'”/,/<\/ZoneAlias>/ p’ | \
sed -n ‘/<ZoneAliasMember>/,/<\/ZoneAliasMember>/ s/.*[a-z][0-9].*/&/p’`; \
do echo -n “$zn “; echo $m | \
sed ‘s/[0-9a-zA-Z][0-9a-zA-Z]/:&/g’ |sed ‘s/^://’; done; done
P.S. Frankly speaking, I spent more time writing this note than the script itself.