Generating new alarm with specific user tag

[Anon Anon]

Hi

 

I like to generate a new alarm with user_tag2 = "7x24"

Here is my LUA skript:

 

rc, nimid = nimbus.alarm (severity, message, suppressionKey, suppressionID, source)

 

thisAlarm = alarm.get(nimid)
if thisAlarm ~= nil then
changeAlarm = {}
changeAlarm.nimid = thisAlarm.nimid
changeAlarm.user_tag2 = "7x24"
alarm.set(changeAlarm)
end

 

The new alarm is generated but the set alarm function with user_tag2 has no effect.

 

Can anybody help me to solve this issue.

 

Thanks

 

Paul

[Matthias Gruber]

Hi!

 

Doing some similiar (hpoefully ;->), but in preprocessing as script.

 

event.user_tag2="itopfilter"

return event

 

 

cheers

Matthias

[Anon Anon]

Hi mgruber

 

Thanks a lot, this is working. But the script is divided in to two places.

If possible I like to handle everything in one go in one script.

But it looks like this will be the solution for my requierment.

 

Regards

Paul

[Anon Anon]

I can think of two ways you might be able to do this in one script:

 

• Put a sleep() between sending the alarm message and looking for the alarm. If you do this, you could even make a loop and retry several times (sleeping between each attempt) if the alarm is not there yet.
• Use the rawalarm() function to set the user tag directly in the alarm message.

[Anon Anon]

Can you have the script do something if the nil test fails, so you can see if that is the problem? The script might be looking for the alarm before the NAS has created an alarm. The nimbus.alarm() function does not create an alarm. It creates an alarm message, which must still be processed by the NAS before the NAS creates the alarm (or updates an existing alarm, depending on the suppression rules).

[Anon Anon]

Hi Keith

 

Yes, the statement "if thisAlarm ~= nil then"  is nil. Therefore the set alarm is not executed at all.

 

regards

Paul