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Setting Event Filter Actions Configuring Event Filters
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Run Command
Action
Run Command Action Name Name of this action required for identification.
Run Command This is used to specify the actual command to be executed in the
NMS server machine. The command specified here should not
require a shell to run unless the shell program is specified in the
command.
Note: Some commands (i.e dir, ) in release 5.0 did
not require a command shell to run. In
release 6.0, this has changed; all commands
requiring a shell must be run within the
command shell (i.e. unix k-shell /bin/sh,
windows 2000 cmd.exe). As an alternative,
you could put the commands in a shell script
and then run the script that contains the
commands.
Command Results Append Output - This is one option under command results
which if selected implies that the output of the command execu-
tion should be appended to the event message body.
Append Errors - This is another option under command results
which if selected implies that the errors of the command execu-
tion should be appended to the event/alert message body. Long
messages or errors will be truncated.
Abort After This is used to specify the number of seconds that the command
is allowed to run and if the time specified here is reached while
the executed command is still running then it will be stopped.
This is important because this action can block all new events
while the command is executing.
TABLE 9-6 Action Types and Associated Fields for Event Filter Actions (Continued)
Action Type Filter Action Detail Description