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When defining the user command, you need to call shell with the -c option and in parenthesis declare the variable name definition followed by a space in the argument to pass to the shell script. Please note, the arguments in the parenthesis need to use the concatenate setting to combine them into a single string to pass to bin/sh -c.

Below is an example script that will echo hello followed by the $(varname) variable value to standard out.

[mmuniz@myserver tmp]$ cat /tmp/hello_variable.sh
#!/bin/bash

echo hello
echo ${varname}

The following user command passes the $(varname) variable definition to the /tmp/hello_variable.sh script

Command XML:

<command name="Echo hello variable command">
<targets>
<target>/geneos/gateway/directory/probe/managedEntity</target>
</targets>
<userCommand>
<type>script</type>
<runLocation>netprobe</runLocation>
<args>
<arg>
<static>/bin/sh</static>
</arg>
<arg>
<concatenate>false</concatenate>
<static>-c</static>
</arg>
<arg>
<concatenate>false</concatenate>
<static>(varname</static>
</arg>
<arg>
<concatenate>true</concatenate>
<static>=</static>
</arg>
<arg>
<concatenate>true</concatenate>
<static>value</static>
</arg>
<arg>
<concatenate>true</concatenate>
<static> </static>
</arg>
<arg>
<concatenate>true</concatenate>
<static>/tmp/hello_variable.sh)</static>
</arg>
</args>
<enablePassword>true</enablePassword>
</userCommand>
</command>

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