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ClearCase Support: Automate Checking of ClearCase Views

I _strongly_ recommend automating the verification of all ClearCase Views like I did. I wrote the Perl script below to check each ClearCase View automatically. This script does several basic checks, but here are the six primary features:

For each View that was created over 60 days ago, the script will email the View's owner to renew (backup, delete, re-create, and configure) or delete the View.

For each View that was last accessed over 30 days ago, the script will email the View's owner to delete the View.

If any files are checked out in the View for more than 30 days, then the script will send a reminder email to the View's owner to checkin or uncheckout the list of old checkedout files.

The script will also make sure that each View Storage Partition is not about to run out of disk space.

If a View is too large (200 MB is my soft limit), then the script will ask the View's owner to clean up the View.

Finally, if the View's user account was deleted or de-activated, then the administrators would be emailed a list of Views to be deleted.

Of course, you can change the durations/limits of each requirement to your environment's needs. From my experience, each View should be checked once a week or maybe at least once a month via cron. Here is how to execute this script.

*$ check_Views.pl* [test]**

The "test" argument will only output issues to the screen without emailing other users.

You can download this Perl script here, or you can copy-n-paste from here:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
 
 
 # This script was written for www.philforhumanity.com.
 # If you have any questions, issues, or enhancement requests, please contact us via the website. 
 # Use this script at your own risk.
 
 
 # Configuration Variables
 my $AWK = "/bin/awk";
 my $CT = "/usr/atria/bin/cleartool";
 my $DF = "/bin/df";
 my $DU = "/bin/du";
 my $ECHO = "/bin/echo";
 my $GREP = "/bin/grep";
 my $LS = "/bin/ls";
 my $MAILX = "/bin/mailx";
 my $MAX_DAYS_CO = 30;                  # Maximum number of days a file can be checked out for
 my $MAX_DAYS_IDLE = 30;                # MAximum number of days a View can be idle for
 my $MAX_DAYS_OLD = 60;                 # Maximum number of days a View can be old for
 my $MAX_VIEW_SIZE = 200000;            # Maximum View size allowed in kilobytes
 my $PARTITION_ERROR_LIMIT = 90;        # View storage partition full error limit
 my $PARTITION_WARNING_LIMIT = 80;      # View storage partition full warning limit
 my $REGISTRY_CHECK = "/usr/atria/etc/rgy_check";
 my $TAIL = "/bin/tail";
 my @VIEW_STORAGE_PARTITIONS = ("/view1", "/view2", "/view3", "/view4");   # All View storage partitions
                                        
 
 # Numerically sorting function
 sub numerically { $b <=> $a }
 
 
 # Verify arguments
 my $test = 0;  # The test argument is for testing the script without sending error messages to users
 if (scalar(@ARGV) > 1)
 {
   die "ERROR: Too many arguments.\nFormat: check_Views.pl  [test]\n\n";
 }
 else
 {
   if (scalar(@ARGV) == 1)
   {
     if (@ARGV[0] eq "test")
     {
       $test = 1;
     }
     else
     {
       die "ERROR: Incorrect argument.\nFormat: check_Views.pl  [test]\n\n";
     }
   }
 }
 
 
 # Local variables
 my $directory;
 my @email;
 my $found;
 my $line;
 my @output;
 my $output;
 my $owner;
 my $size;
 my @temp;
 my @temp2;
 my $temp;
 my $view_name;
 my $view_path;
 
 
 # For each View, check the View
 foreach $line (`$CT lsview`)
 {
   # Split each line for View info
   @line = split (/\s+/, $line);
 
 
   # Parse the line variables
   $view_name = $line[1];
   $view_path = $line[2];
 
 
   # If test, then pause between testing of Views and print View name
   if ($test == 1)
   {
     sleep 30;
     print "\nSTARTING: $view_name\n";
   }
 
 
   # Check View storage path is in a valid View storage partition
   $found = 0;
   foreach $directory (@VIEW_STORAGE_PARTITIONS)
   {
     if ($view_path =~ m!^$directory!)
     {
       $found = 1;
     }
   }
   
   
   # If not a valid View storage directory, then print error message
   if ($found == 0)
   {
     print "ERROR: View $view_name has incorrect View path of $view_path.\n";
   }
 
 
   # Check if View storage path exists
   if (! -e $view_path)
   {
     print "ERROR: View $view_name has non-existent path $view_path.\n";
     next; # Don't bother continuing to test this View if the View path does not exist.
   }
 
 
   # Check if path is a directory
   if (! -d $view_path)
   {
     # Print results
     print "ERROR: View $view_name has a non-directory as the View path of $view_path.\n";
     next;
   }
 
 
   # Change to the View path directory
   if (! chdir ($view_path))
   {
     # Print results
     print "ERROR: View $view_name has a View path $view_path that can not be accessed.\n";
     next;
   }
   
   
   # Get the View's owner id
   $output = `$LS -l . | $TAIL -1`;
   @output = split (/\s+/, $output);
   $owner = $output[2]; 
   
   
   # Get listing in password file.
   @output = getpwnam($owner); 
     
   
   # Check if account exists
   if (@output == ())
   {
     # Print results
     print "WARNING: Unable to find account $owner for View $view_name.\n  The View should probably be deleted.\n";
   }
 
   
   # Check if account is active
   if (($output[1] eq "*") || ($output[8] eq "/bin/date") || ($output[8] eq "/bin/false"))
   {
     # Print results
     print "WARNING: The account $owner for View $view_name has been de-activated.\n  The View should probably be deleted.\n";
   }
 
 
   # Get the size of View's storage directory in kilobytes
   $size = int (`$DU -ks`);
   
  
   # Check the size of View is over the limit
   if ($size > $MAX_VIEW_SIZE)
   {
     $size = $size / 1000; # Convert from KB to MB
     if ($test == 0)
     {
       # Email results
       @email = ("$owner,\n\nYou have a View, $view_name, that is too large at $size megabytes.  Please clean up or delete this View.  Make sure you save or checkin any checked out files and View private files that you wish to keep.\n\n\nRegards,\n\nClearCase Administrator\n");
       `$ECHO \"@email\" | $MAILX -s "View $view_name is too large at $size megabytes!" $owner`;
     }
     else
     {
     	# Display results
       print "WARNING: View $view_name is too large at $size megabytes!\n";
     }
   }
 
   
   # Check if element * /main/LATEST is a rule in the config spec, if so then check for checked out files
   if (`$CT setview -exec \"$CT catcs | $GREP '\^element' | $GREP '\/main\/LATEST'| $GREP '\\\*'  \" $view_name `)
   {    
     # Get list of all checked out files for View
     @output = `$CT setview -exec \"$CT lsco -cview -avobs -fmt \'\%Ad \%Xn\\n\' \" $view_name`;
   }
   else
   {
     # Alert user or user running this script
     if ($test == 0)
     {
       # Email results
       @email = ("$owner,\n\nYou have a View, $view_name, that does not have \"element star /main/LATEST\" in it.  Please correct this, if it is a mistake.  Otherwise, ignore this email.\n\n\nRegards,\n\nClearCase Administrator\n");
       `$ECHO \"@email\" | $MAILX -s "View $view_name possibly has an incomplete config spec" $owner`;
       next;
     }
     else
     {
       print "WARNING: View $view_name does not have \"element \* /main/LATEST\" in its config spec.\n";
       next;
     }
   }  
   
 
   # Check if error when the View was started in the previous section
   if ( (grep (/ERROR/, @output) != ()) || (grep (/Error/, @output) != ()) || (grep (/Warning/, @output) != ()) || (grep (/WARNING/, @output) != ()) )
   {
     # Print results
     print "ERROR: View $view_name did not start properly.\n", @output;
     next;
   }  
 
 
   # Check if the checked out files have been checked out for more than $MAX_DAYS_CO days
   @temp2 = ();
   foreach $temp (@output)
   {  
     @temp = split (/\s+/, $temp);
     if ($temp[0] > $MAX_DAYS_CO)
     {
       @temp2 = (@temp2, $temp);
     }  
   }
   # Sort array
   @temp2 = sort numerically @temp2;
 
 
   # If check outs have been found over than $MAX_DAYS_CO days, than email uses.
   if ((@temp2 != ()) and ($test == 0))
   {
   	# Email results
     @email = ("$owner,\n\nYou have at least one checked out file that has been checked out for over $MAX_DAYS_CO days in View $view_name.  Please check in or un-check out these files listed below as soon as possible.\n\n\nRegards,\n\nClearCase Administrator\n\n\nDays\nOld   File\n----  ----\n", @temp2);
     `$ECHO \"@email\" | $MAILX -s "Checked out files that are over $MAX_DAYS_CO days old for View $view_name." $owner`;
   }
 
 
   # Check if the View's storage directory is over $MAX_DAYS_IDLE days idle
   if (-M $view_path > $MAX_DAYS_IDLE)
   {
     if ($test == 0)
     {
       # Email results
       @email = ("$owner,\n\nYou have a View, $view_name, that has been idle for over $MAX_DAYS_IDLE days.  Please delete this View if you are not using it.  Make sure you save or checkin any checked out files and View private files that you wish to keep.\n\n\nRegards,\n\nClearCase Administrator\n");
       `$ECHO \"@email\" | $MAILX -s "View $view_name is over $MAX_DAYS_IDLE days idle." $owner`;
     }
     else
     {
       print "WARNING: View $view_name is over $MAX_DAYS_IDLE days idle.\n";
     }
   }
   
   
   # Check if the View created age is over $MAX_DAYS_OLD days
   if (-M "$view_path/.view" > $MAX_DAYS_OLD)
   {
     if ($test == 0)
     {
       # Email results
       @email = ("$owner,\n\nYou have a View, $view_name, was created over $MAX_DAYS_OLD days ago.  Please delete or renew this View.  Make sure you save or checkin any checked out files and View private files that you wish to keep.\n\n\nRegards,\n\nClearCase Administrator\n");
       `$ECHO \"@email\" | $MAILX -s "View $view_name is over $MAX_DAYS_OLD days old." $owner`;
     }
     else
     {
       print "WARNING: View $view_name is over $MAX_DAYS_OLD days old.\n";
     }
   }
 
 
   # End of foreach View loop
 }
 
 
 # Check each partition if the disk space full is too high
 foreach $line (@VIEW_STORAGE_PARTITIONS)
 {
   $output = eval `$DF -k $line | $TAIL -1 | $AWK '{print \$1}' `;
  
   # Check percentage
   if ($output >= $PARTITION_ERROR_LIMIT)
   {
     # Print results
     print "ERROR: View Partition $line is over $PARTITION_ERROR_LIMIT% full!\n";
   }
   elsif ($output >= $PARTITION_WARNING_LIMIT)
   {
     # Print results 
     print  "WARNING: View Partition $line is over $PARTITION_WARNING_LIMIT% full.\n";
   }
 }
 
 
 # If you do not allow local Views in a particular region, such as on Windows, then you can use this section of code.
 #@output = `$CT lsview -region <REGION_NAME> | $GREP -v <VIEW_SERVER_NAME> | $GREP -v \"<VIEW_SERVER_IP_ADDRESS>\" `;
 #if (@output != ())
 #{
 #  # Print results
 #  print "WARNING: Local Windows Views found.  They should not exist.\n @output\n";
 #}
 
 
 # Ask the ClearCase Registry for any View issues
 @output = `$REGISTRY_CHECK -views`;
 if (@output[0] ne "No registry errors/inconsistencies detected.\n")
 {
     print "\n",@temp,"\n";
 }
 
 
 # Exit
 exit 0;

This script was written for www.philforhumanity.com.

by Phil B.

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