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  • 1.  nimalarm.exe options

    Posted Aug 17, 2017 09:55 AM
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    Not so much a question but a comment that may help someone. I recently upgraded from 8.2 to 8.47 and had an issue using nimalarm.exe. I use it to send a regular alarm to the alarm console to ensure alarms are being received okay using Windows scheduler. 

    I noticed that the alarm had stopped coming in, ran it manually and it looked like it completed okay but never came in. I manually ran the tool testalarm and that worked fine. What I did notice was that when I ran nimalarm manually, when it completed it printed the version on the screen. When looking at the options I noticed that the options for nimalarm have changed, where '-V' used to be <message values e.g. key1=val1;key2=val2....> we now have '-V' listed as "print version" and '-v' is now used for message values.

     

    Attached document shows the differences

     

    So a subtle change between upper case V and lower case v in the tools options for this tool has wasted a few hours.

    I have not managed to find any documented details on this option change.

     

    Just wanted to highlight this in case anyone else has not noticed the change and uses nimalarm.

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  • 2.  Re: nimalarm.exe options

    Posted Aug 17, 2017 11:12 AM

    Hi, thanks for this. I had a customer who reported this problem and today he found the root cause was this slightly options change. I published the following techdoc: nimalarm options changed 

    I hope customers who may come across the same issue can find these posts useful.



  • 3.  Re: nimalarm.exe options

    Posted Aug 17, 2017 11:17 AM
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    Iulian, in https://communities.ca.com/docs/DOC-231176495-nimalarm-options-changed the two images are the same, the older one should have upper case V only and the newer should have lowercase and uppercase v

     

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  • 4.  Re: nimalarm.exe options

    Posted Aug 17, 2017 11:31 AM

    Thanks, Kevin. I modified it.



  • 5.  Re: nimalarm.exe options

    Posted Aug 22, 2017 11:58 AM

    Hello guys.

    Is it possible to set the name of probe in alarm generated by 'nimalarm'? Something like:

    ./nimalarm -S <source> "<message>" -v probe=logmon



  • 6.  Re: nimalarm.exe options

    Posted Aug 22, 2017 12:15 PM

    I just tried and could not get it to work.........

    usage: nimalarm [options] message-string
    where options are:
    -l <severity level>
    -s <subsystem id>
    -c <checkpoint id>
    -d <debug level>
    -S <source/hostname>
    -i return message-id
    -1 <custom1>
    -2 <custom2>
    -3 <custom3>
    -4 <custom4>
    -5 <custom5>
    -t <CI type>
    -n <CI name>
    -m <CI metric>
    -a <alarm token>
    -v <message values e.g. key1=val1;key2=val2...>
    -V print version



  • 7.  Re: nimalarm.exe options

    Posted Aug 22, 2017 12:46 PM

    Thanks for the answer. I just tried it too, without success.

    I was thinking that can exist some "udata.value" for probe that is not properly "probe", you know?

     

    In alarm_enrichment log (level 4), I can see something like "prid=>probename"

     

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    PDS[udata=>[PDS[subsys=>XX, level=>0, source=>10.X.X.X, message=>Alarm "" on switch "XXXXX". Maint Object="_PE". On board="1". Port="A:\"PE Health Check device is responding\"", Error Code="" (Alarm number="FPA:00000:0000000000:0821170220::N". Product ID="1000000000". IPAddress="10.X.X.X". Category=""), ]]pri=>0, subject=>alarm, origin=>XXXX, hop=>1, prid=>snmptd, source=>172.X.X.X, nimts=>1503416252, dev_id=>D8AC73A8D313C0631522A6A3517EFD301, robot=>robot02, nimid=>PO84063187-76632, supp_key=>snmptd/X.X.X.X"_PE", tz_offset=>10800, hop0=>HUB, domain=>XXXX, suppression=>y+000000000#snmptd/X.X.X.X"_PE", hop1=>HUB, met_id=>MCA617AEE7985D826F622427D266B0D31, ]

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    I tried "./nimalarm -S <source> "<message>" -v prid=logmon" and also "./nimalarm -S <source> "<message>" -v prid=>logmon"