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The EPICenter Alarm System
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Figure 53: Using trap varbinds as arguments to a command as an alarm action
Because the variables may return values in a form that is not usable in a CLI command, two functions
are provided to convert values to CLI-readable formats. These are:
●
$ToCliPort()
— converts a port IfIndex to the slot:port format
●
$ToCliVlanName()
— converts a VLANID to a VLAN name.
For example, for the trap
extremeEdpNeighborAdded
, the variable
extremeEdpPortIfIndex
is returned
as the second varbind (index=1).
So upon an EDP Neighbor Added trap, to run a program “testprog” and pass it the port number, you
could use the command
cmd c:/testprog $ToCliPort($trap(1))
For example, if the trap returns an IfIndex of 1009, the
$ToCliPort
function will convert it to 1:9, so
that the resulting run command is:
cmd c:/testprog 1:9
Setting Up E-mail for the Alarm System
Before you can use the either of the e-mail actions, you must configure the e-mail capability. Until you
do so, the
Email To and Short email to fields and check boxes are not available. To configure the e-mail
capability, do the following:
1 Click the top Settings... button (nest to the Email field) on the Action page.
This displays the Email Settings window, as shown in Figure 54 .