Using Iguana to Import Backed Up Logs

Purpose:  Use Iguana as a webserver to send it a beginning and an end date.  Iguana will then move those logs from a backup folder to the active Iguana logs directory so that they can be viewed.  Some history:  We recommend storing 3-6 months worth of logs typically. This is just because the logs are typically used to research recent transactions and you can get most issues resolved within that time frame.  However, we do recommend that you keep a backup of the logs.  I was backing mine up into another folder on the same machine and I wrote this channel so that I could send Iguana a beginning date and an end date

Links:

  • Example Link to Call= http://localhost:6544/logs?beginning=04/01/12&ending=05/09/12

Steps to Build the Channel:

  • Source = From https
    your url path can be anything I chose ‘Logs’
    example of web call http://localhost:6544/logs?beginning=04/01/12&ending=05/09/12
  • Destination = to Queue

Writing the Code:

  • You can just import the whole file from here that has everything
    Log_Viewer_From_HTTPS.zip
  • The above has the vb scripts and the BAT file that are necessary to stop and start the Iguana service.  This must be done in order to search the logs.
  • If you would just like to look through some of the code you can see that below.  As you can see my logs were in the D:\backup folder and i was moving them into the D:\logs directory.  This is the one I have Iguana setup to store the logs.
    require 'dateparse'
    require 'datediff'
    require 'split'
    
    function trace(A) return end
    
    Source = 'D:\\backup'
    Destination = 'D:\\logs\\'
    
    function main(Data)
       details = ''
       queue.push{data=Data}
    
       local Success, Err, getB, getE = pcall(ckParse, Data)
    
       if Success then 
          ckErrors(getB, getE)
       else   
          details = 'ERROR RETURNED: '..Err
          net.http.respond{body=details}
          return
       end  
    end 
    
    function restartIguana()
       local T = io.popen('dir /B')
       T:read('*a')
    
      local T = io.popen('cd "edit\\admin\\other\\" && 01-StopService.vbs')
      -- local T = io.popen('cd C:\\Updates && 01-StopService.vbs')
    
    end
    
    function ckErrors(getB, getE)
       Berror = 0
       if getB == nil or getB == '' then 
          trace('you here')
          details = details..'<BR>'..'You are Missing a proper beginning date should be parameter beginning=mm/dd/yy'
          Berror = Berror + 1
       end
       if getE == nil or getE == '' then 
          trace('you here')
          details = details..'<BR>'..'You are Missing a proper ending date should be parameter ending=mm/dd/yy'
          Berror = Berror + 1
       end
    
       if Berror > 0  then 
          net.http.respond{body=details}
       else
          moveFiles(getB, getE)
          trace(details)
          net.http.respond{body=details}
       end
       return  
    end
    
    function ckParse(Data)
       local R = net.http.parseRequest{data=Data}
       getB = R.params.beginning
       getE = R.params.ending
       return _,getB, getE
    end
    
    function moveFiles(B,E)
       local Days = daysbetween(B,E)
       pullLog(Days, B)
       return
    end
    
    function pullLog(Days, B)
       local i=1
       mo = B:sub(1,2)
       da = B:sub(4,5)
       da = da -1
       ye = B:sub(7,8)
    
       while i < Days+1 do 
          mo, da, ye = newdate(mo,da,ye,1)
          if mo <=9 then 
             mo = '0'..mo
          end
          if da <=9 then 
             da = '0'..da
          end
          local redate = '20'..ye..mo..da..'.log'
          movelog(redate)
    
          trace(mo)
          trace(da)
          trace(ye)
          i = i+1
       end
    
       if iguana.isTest() then 
          trace('Do nothing you are testing')
       else
          restartIguana()
       end
    end
    
    function movelog(A)
       trace(A)
       if Check4File(Source..A) then 
          --copy file
          copyLog(Source..A, Destination..A)
          details = details..'<BR>'..'COPIED FILE '..A
       else
          iguana.logInfo('FILEMOVE: no file '..A..' to move')
          details = details..'<BR>'..'NON EXISTENT FILE '..A
          return
       end
    end
    
    function copyLog(src,dest)
       io.popen('copy "'..src..'" "'..dest..'"')
    end
    
    function Check4File(FileName)
       ckFile = io.open(FileName)
       if ckFile == nil then
          return false
       else
          io.close(ckFile)
          return true
       end
    end

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