USAGE for verify_sdp.sh v5.13.2: verify_sdp.sh [] [-online] [-skip [,,...]] [-si] [-L |off ] [-D] or verify_sdp.sh -h|-man DESCRIPTION: This script verifies the current SDP setup for the specified instance, and also performs basic health checks of configured servers. This uses the SDP instance bin directory /p4/N/bin to determine what server binaries (p4d, p4broker, p4p) are expected to be configured on this machine. Existence of the '*_init' script indicates the given binary is expected. For example, for instance 1, if /p4/1/bin/p4d_1_init exists, a p4d server is expected to run on this machine. Checks may be executed or skipped depending on what servers are configured. For example, if a p4d is configured, the $P4ROOT/server.id file should exist. If p4p is configured, the 'cache' directory should exist. OPTIONS: Specify the SDP instances. If not specified, the SDP_INSTANCE environment variable is used instead. If the instance is not defined by a parameter and SDP_INSTANCE is not defined, exits immediately with an error message. -online Online mode. Does additional checks that require P4D to be online. -skip [,,...] Specify a comma-delimited list of test names to skip. Valid test names: * crontab: Skip crontab check. Use this if you do not expect crontab to be configured, perhaps if you use a different scheduler. * excess: Skip checks for excess copies of p4d/p4p/p4broker in PATH. * license: Skip license related checks. * offline_db: Skip checks that require a healthy offline_db. * masterid: Skip check to ensure ServerID of master starts with 'master'. * version: Skip version checks. As an alternative to using the '-skip' command, the shell environment variable VERIFY_SDP_SKIP_TEST_LIST can be set to a comma-separated list of test names to skip. Using the command line parameter is the best choice for temporarily skipping tests, while specifying the environment variable is better for making permanent exceptions (e.g. always excluding the crontab check if crontabs are not used at this site). The variable should be set in /p4/common/config/p4_N.vars. If the '-skip' option is provided, the VERIFY_SDP_SKIP_TEST_LIST variable is ignored (not appended to). So it may make sense to reference the variable on the command line. For example, if the value of the variable is 'crontab', to skip crontab and license checks, you could specify: -skip $VERIFY_SDP_SKIP_TEST_LIST,license -si Silent mode, useful for cron operation. Both stdout and stderr are still captured in the log. The '-si' option cannot be used with '-L off'. -L Specify the log file to use. The default is /p4/N/logs/verify_sdp.log The special value 'off' disables logging to a file. Note that '-L off' and '-si' are mutually exclusive. -D Set extreme debugging verbosity. HELP OPTIONS: -h Display short help message -man Display man-style help message EXAMPLES: Example 1: Typical usage: This script is typically called after SDP update with only the instance name or number as an argument, e.g.: verify_sdp.sh 1 Example 2: Skipping some checks. verify_sdp.sh 1 -skip crontab Example 3: Automation Usage If used from automation already doing its own logging, use -L off: verify_sdp.sh 1 -L off LOGGING: This script generates a log file and also displays it to stdout at the end of processing. By default, the log is: /p4/N/logs/verify_sdp.log. The exception is usage errors, which result an error being sent to stderr followed usage info on stdout, followed by an immediate exit. If the '-si' (silent) flag is used, the log is generated, but its contents are not displayed to stdout at the end of processing. EXIT CODES: An exit code of 0 indicates no errors were encounted attempting to perform verifications, and that all checks verified cleanly.