Two useful Zendmd commands on Event Management

1. dmd.ZenEventManager.getEventList()

This command can get a full list of active events objects

2.dmd.Events.manage_ackEvents()

This command can acknoledge a event, with the evid provided.

An example to utilize these two commands,

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events = dmd.ZenEventManager.getEventList()

for e in events:

if e.eventClass == "/Perf/CPU":

dmd.Events.manage_ackEvents(e.evid)

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This script will search all the active events, if the events is from Class "/Perf/CPU", script will acknowledge the event. If you want to delete them, dmd.Events.manage_deleteEvents() will do the job.

3. For a Event object, below properties can be very useful when you want to find cerntain type of events to work with.

e.eventClass: the event classs, such as "/Perf/CPU", "/Status/Ping"

Code Example: if e.eventClass == "/Perf/CPU":

e.eventState: the event state in number, 0 is active non acknoledged; 1 is acknoledged.

Code Example: if e.eventState == 1:

e.summary: the description about the events, such as “disk space usage 100%". It is a string type of variable, so you can apply all the string operation on it. str.split, str.replace.

e.device: the device name associate with this event.

Code Example: if e.device == "wwwsrv1":

e.evid: the event evid, whichi s a uniq identifier for a event. Many event operations require the evid as the parameter.

Code Example: dmd.Events.manage_ackEvents(e.evid)