How to send alarm to text file

[Chris Andersen]

Hi,

How can i send an alarm from SIM to a text file.

I would like to create a event / task that starts a custom command that creates a text file with this info: Systemname, eventtime and serity.

Can anyone help me??
Thanks in advance

[Rob Buxton]

You'll need to develop some scripting skills.

I use perl, but anything will do.

You can generate events by using the HP Management Agents GUI to send Test SNMP Traps which generate Events.

The Help Guide for HPSIM has a section on the variables HPSIM will send through to a Custom command.
See:
http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/hpsim/infolibrary.html

[Chris Andersen]

Hi,

Do you have any nice example script, which put for ex. noticelable, devicename and noticeseveretystr in a text file.

Thanks

[Rob Buxton]

The following perl script would open the file texfile.tmp and write the contents of the variable $NOTICEPLAINTEXT to that file.

use Env;

open MAILTMP, '>textfile.tmp';
print MAILTMP "$NOTICEPLAINTEXT";
close MAILTMP;

exit;

You would need to have perl installed on the CMS.