Extreme Networks EPICenter 4.1, Software Installation Manual

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156 EPICenter Software Installation and User Guide
The EPICenter Alarm System
The following table outlines the EPICenter server side commands that available in the slave interpreter
through aliases.
fconfigure
✔ ✔
All channels are non-blocking by default, cannot set channel to
blocking; cannot set channel buffer size
open
✔ ✔
Can only open file in
user/alarm
and its subdirectories; file
is opened in nonblocking mode using the default buffer size;
number of open file is restricted
vwait
✔
not Allowed
encoding
✔ ✔
Cannot change system encoding scheme
after
✔ ✔
Cannot do “after ms”, which does not respond to events
puts
✔
puts data to stdout
EPICenter
Command Alias in
Master
Description
extr::query
✔
Retrieve server-side data from the database. Syntax:
extr::query {} ?-raw? sql ?arg arg ...?
{}
The first argument must be {}. Using {} signals the command to retrieves
data from the EEM server, in which the alarm action scripts are executing.
-raw
(Optional) If specified, the result of the query is returned unparsed as a
string containing the data in the XML format.
sql
The sql query
arg ...
Arguments to the sql query for variable substitution
extr::sendMail
✔
Sends e-mail through the EPICenter server. Syntax:
extr::sendMail toList from subject body ?smtpHost? ?login?
?password?
toList
A list of recipient’s email addresses
from
The email address of the sender
subject
The subject of the email
body
The text of the email
smtpHost
(Optional) The host ip address of the SMTP host. If not specified, use the
default as defined in the alarm system.
login
(Optional) The login name to the SMTP host
password
(Optional) The password to the SMTP host
extr::postEvent
✔
Log an event to the server’s event log. The event time is logged. Syntax:
extr::postEvent message
message - the message of the event
Table 5: Command Restrictions in EPICenter Tcl Safe Interpreter (continued)