DX Unified Infrastructure Management

Posted in a support case from one of the developers, useful information to share I thought.

NIME_OK 0 /* OK */
NIME_ERROR 1 /* error */
NIME_COMERR 2 /* communication error */
NIME_INVAL 3 /* invalid argument */
NIME_NOENT 4 /* not found */
NIME_ISENT 5 /* already defined */
NIME_ACCESS 6 /* permission denied */
NIME_AGAIN 7 /* temporarily out of resources */
NIME_NOMEM 8 /* out of resources */
NIME_NOSPC 9 /* no space left */
NIME_EPIPE 10 /* broken connection */
NIME_NOCMD 11 /* command not found */
NIME_LOGIN 12 /* login failed */
NIME_SIDEXP 13 /* SID expired */
NIME_ILLMAC 14 /* illegal MAC */
NIME_ILLSID 15 /* illegal SID */
NIME_SIDSESS 16 /* Session id for hub is invalid */
NIME_EXPIRED 17 /* Expired */
NIME_NOLIC 18 /* No valid license */
NIME_INVLIC 19 /* Invalid license */
NIME_ILLLIC 20 /* Illegal license */
NIME_INVOP 21 /* Invalid operation finv */
NIME_USER 100 /* user error from this value and up */

As a function, just call codes(rc) when issuing somthing like:

response,rc = nimbus.request(address, command, arguments)

----

function codes(a)
codes = {[0]="OK",[1]="error",[2]="communication error",[3]="invalid argument",[4]="not found",[5]="already defined",
[6]="permission denied",[7]="temporarily out of resources",[8]="out of resources",[9]="no space left",[10]="broken connection",
[11]="command not found",[12]="login failed",[13]="SID expired",[14]="illegal MAC",[15]="illegal SID",[16]="Session id for hub is invalid",
[17]="Expired",[18]="No valid license",[19]="Invalid license",[20]="Illegal license",[21]="Invalid operation finv",[100]="user error from this value and up"}
if rc == 0 then
print(codes[rc])
else if rc > 0 then
print(codes[rc])
end
end
end

Cool! I always end up looking up from this list of error codes manually and have thought for a long time that it would be nice if one of the Nimsoft-specific function libraries included these transations.

Having recently learned how to include lua files into my scripts I am thinking that (over time) to create one LUA file that holds various functions like this, and robins tdumper function he posted that can be included into a development script to help writing but might not be required at run time.

copy this file to the nas scrips folder and do:

dofile "scripts/dev_functions.lua"

Any ideas for additional functions welcome....