I have developed a set of routines that undo the ADSM output formatting,
making it easy to perform queries from programs or scripts.  The routines
are written in C, and handle both the itemized (format=detailed) and
tabular formats.  If you are interested, they are yours for the asking.

Paul Hilchey
The University of British Columbia


Steve Wilson <SteveW AT DIS.WA DOT GOV> writes:

> I was wondering if anybody knows of a way you can change the column widths
> of the ADSM  output from the command line.

> ADSM will automatically adjust the space in-between the columns for
> different screen sizes.   However the columns appear to be static.   If the
> text will not fit into the given area it is hyphenated and continued on the
> next line.

> I encountered this problem when I automated the daily  event checking
> routine to mail exception notices to nodes which have not completed
> successfully the previous night.    Everything works great for node who's
> name is 13 characters or less.   The problem arises when the node names
> greater that 13 characters are encountered.   I have a work around for this
> situation by creating an entry in the mail aliases name file for these
> shortened node names.  There are other situations where it would be nice to
> be able to format the output yourself so you don't have to do it manually
> latter.

> Any help would be appreciated.   Thanks in advance.