Question about No Nodes Available Rule

You could use a global variable and increment it's value for each request. When it reaches your threashold then log your message and reset it to zero.

 

 

You could also use the modulus ( % ) operator but unRuleY mentioned previously that it was very expensive so I provided the example using the == operator.

 

 

when RULE_INIT {
   Initialize the counter to 0.
  set ::log_ctr 0
}
when HTTP_REQUEST {
   Increment the counter
  incr ::log_ctr
   If counter has reached 50, log the message and reset counter
  if { $::log_ctr == 50 } {
    log "Rule has been called $::log_ctr times"
    set ::log_ctr 0
  }
}

 

 

In this code, I'm using the default global namespace. You could define your own namespace if you wanted to. This would be useful if you are using global variables in different rules and want to somehow distinguish them.

 

 

set my_ns::log_ctr 0

 

 

-Joe