[OOZIE-2738] Output of SSH action should be avaialbe in logs by default + allow capture it raw (no properties file)

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 4.2.0
• Component/s: scripts
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Raphael Jolivet
• Created: 15/Nov/16 16:17
• Updated: 28/May/19 13:09

Description

From, the docs, I understand that capturing output of a remote SSH script requires :

• Explicit <capture-output/> tag
• Ensuring the output to be a java properties file, even in case of error.

I find this behavior quite limiting and counter intuitive.
I would expect that, by default, the complete output of any script call would be available in some log file, for troubleshooting.

Also, I would expect to have some <capture-raw-output/> tag, in order to forward the output of a failing script to an email for instance.

Instead of that, we need to adapt existing scripts, in order to output meaningful error in the very restrictive format :
'"error=Some short error"

This is not always possible, as it is hard to control the output of the underlying commands called by a script (bash typically).