2019: How-To: Using %DATE% variables in the Event Manager

2019: How-To: Using %DATE% variables in the Event Manager

There may be a situation in the Event Manager when access to a specific date is required. For example, you may have a scheduled event that runs at midnight and needs to backup or move all logfiles from yesterday. Since this event is scheduled to run nightly, the date will dynamically change.

Titan FTP Server and Cornerstone MFT Server 2019 have the following 'date' variables for use in the event management system.

%TIME%
%TIMEONLY%
%DATEONLY%
%DATETIMEEX%
%DATE.TODAY.BOY%
%DATE.TODAY.EOY%
%DATE.YESTERDAY%
%DATE.YESTERDAY.RAW%
%DATE.TODAY.DAY%
%DATE.TODAY.MONTH%
%DATE.TODAY.YEAR%
%DATE.YESTERDAY.DAY%
%DATE.YESTERDAY.MONTH%
%DATE.YESTERDAY.YEAR%
%DATE.TODAY%
%DATE.TODAY.RAW%
%DATE.MONTH.THIS.BOM%
%DATE.MONTH.THIS.BOM.RAW%
%DATE.MONTH.THIS.EOM%
%DATE.MONTH.THIS.EOM.RAW%
%DATE.MONTH.LAST.BOM%
%DATE.MONTH.LAST.BOM.RAW%
%DATE.MONTH.LAST.EOM%
%DATE.MONTH.LAST.EOM.RAW%
%DATE.MONTH.LAST%
%DATE.MONTH.LAST.YEAR%
%DATE.MONTH.THIS%
%DATE.MONTH.THIS.YEAR%

Hint: To see exactly what is printed for each of these variables, set up a test event, such as On Logfile Rotated with an action to Write To Custom File and dump the values of these variables. The Action could look like....

DATE.TODAY = %DATE.TODAY%,
DATE.MONTH.THIS.BOM.RAW = %DATE.MONTH.THIS.BOM.RAW%

and would produce

TIME -> 2019-06-14 17:01:02
TIMEONLY -> 17:01:02
DATEONLY -> 2019-06-14
DATETIMEEX -> 20190614170102
DATE.TODAY.BOY -> 2019-01-01
DATE.TODAY.EOY -> 2019-12-31
DATE.YESTERDAY -> 2019-06-13
DATE.YESTERDAY.RAW -> 20190613
DATE.TODAY.DAY -> 14
DATE.TODAY.MONTH -> 06
DATE.TODAY.YEAR -> 19
DATE.YESTERDAY.DAY -> 13
DATE.YESTERDAY.MONTH -> 06
DATE.YESTERDAY.YEAR -> 2019
DATE.TODAY -> 2019-06-14
DATE.TODAY.RAW -> 20190614
DATE.MONTH.THIS.BOM -> 2019-06-01
DATE.MONTH.THIS.BOM.RAW -> 20190601
DATE.MONTH.THIS.EOM -> 2019-06-30
DATE.MONTH.THIS.EOM.RAW -> 20190630
DATE.MONTH.LAST.BOM -> 2019-05-01
DATE.MONTH.LAST.BOM.RAW -> 20190501
DATE.MONTH.LAST.EOM -> 2019-05-31
DATE.MONTH.LAST.EOM.RAW -> 20190531
DATE.MONTH.LAST -> 05
DATE.MONTH.LAST.YEAR -> 2019
DATE.MONTH.THIS -> 06
DATE.MONTH.THIS.YEAR -> 2019

etc...

Note: these variables are available in Titan 2019 and Cornerstone 2019 and later. They are not available in older versions of the software.



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