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Hi there,

#Automated mailer showing Inactive robots

I am looking for an automated way to generate a weekly mailer to Admins showing the list of Inactive robots in my UIM environment. Please let me know if anyone has already implemented this and also provide the steps or method followed. I am unable to find an OOB feature for this.

Regards,

Abhijit

It depends what you call an inactive robot:

- when you receive the robot inactive message from the hub?

- if a robot doesn't create a QoS for a certain period?

- if a robot never created a QoS (or the robot has no additional probes installed other than the default 3)?

- based on what serverlist (if its based on the servers registered in UIM you need to have an installed robot)?

It needs to show registered hosts having Robot installed which are currently Inactive or where controller is down.

Attached a sample lua script that can be executed from nas - ao that will search for inactive robots and dead probes.

(found this script somewhere on a forum)

The only thing to do is to change the print into a nice report.

Thanks for sharing the script. Can you please let me know how to call this script every day morning at 8am and send the script output to a set of admins using Nas - AO + Emailgtw probes?

You can run a LUA script outside NAS:

- install probe nsa to call the lua script outside the nas

- uncomment the logon statement in the script

- you can schedule this via the logmon or nexec probe

example execution statement:

C:\Progra~2\Nimsoft\sdk\nsa\nsa C:\Progra~2\Nimsoft\probes\service\nas\scripts\dead_robots.lua

I am looking for a way using NAS probe only, so that mailing the script result can also be achieved. Are there any steps for this method?

You can use nas Scheduler options to run the script when you want.

Schedule the script is understood, but how to create an AO profile to mail the script output to a set of Admins daily?

well, you need to save the output to file and use blat or other email commandline tool to send it from lua. Then you can use nas Scheduler for it. Not so easy to do it with AO (alarm)profiles that work with alarms. This script is just gathering data and printing them out. So, some more scripting needed to send that out as email.

In attachment another version of the same sample script where the output is written into a buffer and that buffer is mailed at the end.

(you wiill need to change the recipient variable)

From there it's easy to format the buffer with some HTML tags.

Thanks a lot for your help. I am able to get an automated mailer daily through nas - scheduler feature.