Conference azur::mcc

4598.0. "Alarms needed on Exporter" by ANOVAX::COMFORT (Cold iron shackle, ball & chain) Wed Feb 24 1993 15:28

    
    Hi,
    
    This note is written looking for a method to attain a goal as well as a
    request for an enhancement if the goal cannot be realized.  In the
    Exporter FM, one can look at the status of an export and find when the
    last one was done, failures, counters for good and bad exports, etc,
    etc, etc.  What I (aka. my customer) would like to do is to run an
    alarm rule against the counters so that I may fire off a command
    procedure to do various maintenance operations after x number of
    exports have occurred.  I have tried to create a rule to do this and
    get a failure for unrecognized attribute or some such.  If anyone has a
    method to accomplish this , please let me know.  Otherwise, this type
    of functionality would be a nice enhancement as well as a logical
    extension of the alarms module.
    
    Thanks,
    
    Dave

    
    Dave

I think you might be able to write an alarm on RECORDed data but I have never
tried it. This could actually be a usable technique for cutting back on polling
resource requirements although it doesn't look as though RECORD meets your
customer needs.

best regards,
brad...

   RE: .1

   Sorry, but you can not alarm the results of Show Exporting opeation.

   RE: .2

   There is no problem to set up alarm on historical data. 

   In alarm's expression you have to specify something like this:

   ", for start (-00:01:00),in domain domain_name"

   Alarm rule will use data recorded a minute ago.


	Sam
    

    Sam, I believe he is asking to put an alarm rule on the exporter
    characteristics, not on the data being exported. Shouldn't he be
    able to do this?