Adding Smart Events

Smart Controls can be added using the CLI or GUI. If you associated an alert with a Smart Control, the means which you selected to notified of the alert will be displayed.

To add a smart control using the CLI:

Enter the following to assign a name to the smart event.

eqcli > smart_control smart_control_name

Activate the editor by entering the following in the smart control context.

eqcli > script edit/URL

where:

edit invokes the script editor to enter/create the desired script

URL fetches the script from the entered fully qualified ftp/http site

Create/edit the script in the script editor and save the script to the data store.
Determine whether the script is to be run by schedule or at an interval by entering either of the following.

Running the script at an interval will run the selected script at the interval assigned.

eqcli sc-scname > interval seconds

where seconds is the number of seconds at which the script will run.

Setting up a schedule will run the script at the times that you schedule .The schedule for Smart Control is in the local time zone. Therefore, if you set it to run at 12:00, this means 12:00 of whatever timezone the system is set toand not GMT or UTC.

eqcli sc-scname > schedule schedule string

where schedule string is in the standard cron format, but with an additional first column:

second: 0-59

minute: 0-59

hour: 0-23

day of month: 1-31

month: 1-12 (or names, see below)

day of week: 0-7 (0 or 7 is Sun, or use names below)

"Lists" are supported (using comma) but "steps" (generally specified with a "/") are not supported. White space (' ' or \t) is a column break. The parsing starts at the first non-white-space character. If the wrong number of columns (not 6) is parsed, parsing fails.

Day names: Mon,Tue,Wed,Thu,Fri,Sat,Sun

Month names: Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec

Note - The schedule string must be enclosed in quotes. i.e.: "* 0,30 * * * Mon" would be translated as 'Every Monday, run this this every 30 seconds'.

Displaying Configured Smart Controls

To display existing Smart Controls enter the following:

eqcli > show smart_control

Name Interval Schedule

Test_1 648000

Test_2 0 * * 1 2 Feb Mon

eqcli >

To add or modify a Smart Control using the GUI:

Log in to the GUI as described in Logging In.
Click on the System configuration tab on the left navigational pane.
Click on the arrow (u) beside Global to expand the branch.
Click on Smart Controls to display the Smart Controls configuration screen. An example is shown below.

Click on + to add a new smart event. To modify an existing Smart Control either double click one from the list or select one and click on the . In both cases the Modify Smart Control dialogue screen will be displayed. The dialogue screen will be change, based on your choice of Smart Control types. In the example below, an Interval Smart Control Type is selected. If you are modifying a Smart Control, the name of the Smart Control will be displayed at the top of the screen and the current settings will be displayed.

Proceed with the following, based on your selection of Smart Control Type. Some common instructions for all of the screens:

Enter a name in the Name box.
Selecting the Disable check box will disable the Smart Control. This option is more commonly used when a Smart Control has been previously configured and you simply want to disable it.
In the Script pane, you have the option of either uploading a script from a local file or cutting and pasting in the space provided. If you click on the Upload From File button, a dialogue will be provided for you to select a local file.
After loading or pasting the script and after configuring the other parameters, click on the Commit button to save the new Smart Control or the changes that you made to an existing Smart Control. If you want to reset all of the parameters on the screen to the previous settings (before accessing the configuration dialogue screen), click on the Reset button.
Clicking the Run Now button will run the script immediately.
Clicking on the Last Run button will show the output of the last Smart Control run.

If you want to configure or modify an Interval Smart Control:

Select Interval from the Type pane. An Interval type Smart Control will run a script at the intervals that you specify in the Run Every...pane.

Select the appropriate timings using the selectors.

If you want to configure or modify a Schedule type Smart Control:

Select Schedule from the Type pane. A Schedule type Smart Control will run a script at the times that you schedule in the Schedule pane.

Select the appropriate scheduling options using the selectors.

If you want to configure or modify a Thesholdtype Smart Control:

Select Threshold from the Type pane. A Threshold type Smart Control will run a script using previously configured alerts. The alerts are configured with alert definitions, that require the name of an object to which the alert will apply.

State change and exception alerts are available for servers, server pools, server instances, peers (failover) and interfaces. Refer toConfiguring Alerts for detailed descriptions of alert configuration. In addition, if you select an alert in the Alerts Using this Smart Control, and click on the Go to Alert button, the alert configuration screen will be activated. You can select multiple alerts by holding down the CTRL key and selecting alerts.

Note - If you have not configured alerts previously, you will need to configure them so that they are accessible from the Alerts Using this Smart Control pane. You can still save a new Smart Control by uploading a script or copying and pasting in the script area and leaving the Alerts Using this Smart Control empty until you have configured alerts. It may be helpful to write down the Name you entered as you will be need to select the Smart Control when configuring alerts.

Adding Smart Controls