LUA Script: Create array/list of Alert ID's then close them all

[Daniel Blanco]

Hello, I hit an issue with the Nimsoft/UIM connector and SOI and now I have 350+ stale Nimsoft Alerts on my UIM Console since the connector could not close the respective alert on the UIM side. 

Can someone tell me real quick, I have a list of alarm ID: --  FFF2343-234,FFwere-12323, etc....

What does a list or an arry in LUA look like and then how can I use the  action.close(stale_list(i)) method to close all these?

 

I tried: 

close_list = {"FS98101002-48144","FS98101002-43104","ZF53700518-44387"}
for i = 0, 2 do
   --print (close_list[i])
   action.close(close_list[i])
end

 

But getting:

 

----------- Executing script at 12/2/2014 6:20:00 PM ----------

Error in line 9: bad argument #1 to 'close' (string expected, got nil)

[Anon Anon]

LUA Arrays start with 1 not 0 I'm guessing

 

staleList = {"NIMID", "NIMID", "NIMID"}

 

for staleCount = 1, 3 do

  rc = action.close(staleList[staleCount])

  if (rc == 0) then

     print ("Successfully closed alarm: " .. staleList[staleCount])

  else

     print ("Failed to close alarm: " .. staleList[staleCount])

  end

end

 

 

This closed the alarms and returned a code of 0.

[Daniel Blanco]

Thank you Bryan!

 

[Anon Anon]

FYI- You don't need to use a loop for this. The action.close() function accepts a list of IDs. Here is the description from the whitepaper:

 

action.close ( NimId | NimId-List )
Closes the open alarm referenced by the single nimid or the list of alarm ids.

 

I am not sure if the list is a table or a string, but I suspect it is a string of IDs, probably comma-separated.