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I have a customer who wants to populate the fields custom1, custom2, custom3 etc in his alarm fields through a pre-processing rule.  This rule would look at a static text file, match the hostname from the alarm with the hostname in the text file, and populate the custom alarm fields.  This could then be looked at by the NOC operators who have selected the custom1,2,3 etc as their default views and allow them to manage our alarms easier.

I'm looking for any help here but I've attached a screenshot with an explanation to supplement this post.

Thanks

Take a look at the following post:

http://forum.nimsoft.com/t5/General/Change-alarm-fields-quot-custom-1-quot-to-quot-custom-5-quot-by/m-p/2843#M1862

http://forum.nimsoft.com/t5/General-Development/NAS-Storing-data-for-use-between-scripts-pre-post-processing/m-p/3086#M828

You can use something like this  in a pre-processing script....

 -- replace with file name. Note: this is a comma separated list. Each line needs to have the same number of values

fname = "C:/computers.txt"io.input(fname)
for line in io.lines() do
   print(line)
   tmp = split(line,"/,")
   if tmp[1] == event.hostname then
      print("Found record for: " .. event.hostname)

      event.custom_1 = tmp[2]

      event.custom_2 = tmp[3]

      event.custom_3 = tmp[4]
      event.custom_4 = tmp[5]
   end
end
return event