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dfm 3.7 CLI - dfm event generate syntax

matthewt — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:29:55 GMT

All,

I am trying to manually generate some events in my lab, in order to develop scripted responses to them. I am particularly interested in "enclosures-failed" messages right now.

I am trying to run the following

dfm event generate enclosures-failed eg-nasxxx-x01

I get the following error: "Error: Specified event name is not a built-in script event or custom event name."

I cannot find actual syntax examples in either the DFM admin guide, or in any of the NOW documentation. I assume there is some little difference in the "event name" syntax when called from the command line.

Any help would be appreciated.

Re: dfm 3.7 CLI - dfm event generate syntax

marlon — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:16:02 GMT

Hi,

As the 'dfm event generate help' mentions, you cannot use the generate command

to generate built-in events. You can set up an alarm for this and then use the

'test' feature to see what the real alarm message would look like.

-Marlon

Re: dfm 3.7 CLI - dfm event generate syntax

matthewt — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:49:49 GMT

Thanks Marlon,

My dfm event generate help is not that clear. But after your answer I re-read it and better understand what its trying to say by "Built-in script events".

I can work with alarm tests.

Re: dfm 3.7 CLI - dfm event generate syntax

raja — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 04:21:09 GMT

Matthew,

This confusion came up earlier, and we have addressed this in the upcoming release. This is what the help says now:

# dfm event generate help

NAME
generate -- generate a particular user-defined event

SYNOPSIS
dfm event generate [ -t <timestamp> ] <event-name> <source> [ <event-message> ]

DESCRIPTION
    This command is used to generate custom events. Script plugins can
    use the command to generate built-in script status events such as
    script:warning-event. This command cannot be used to generate other
    built-in events.

Thanks,

Raj.