Smarts ASL: How to connect to a remote domain within Smarts ASL

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• VMware

Environment

VMware Smart Assurance - SMARTS

Resolution

How to connect to a remote domain within Smarts Adapter Scripting Language (Smarts ASL)
How to connect to multiple domains using Smarts ASL

In general, a single ASL cannot connect to multiple domains (see Note statement). Instead, each domain connection must have a separate ASL script. The following example shows how you could run an ASL script that connects to a second domain by invoking a second ASL script from within the first.

 

Example

You want to connect to two domains, AMPM-1 and AMPM-2. The first ASL script could be called myscript.asl which connects to AMPM-1 domain as follows:

<BASEDIR>/smarts/bin/sm_adapter -s AMPM-1 <myscript.asl>

To connect to the second domain (AMPM-2), you could invoke a different ASL script (myActions.asl) from within myscript.asl as follows:

myscript.asl

 

START { .. eol }
do {
ga_Driver = create("GA_Driver","gaDrive");

 

ga_RemoteServer = create("GA_RemoteServer","gaRemoteServer");
ga_RemoteServer->remoteServerName = "AMPM-2";

 

rs = create("GA_RuleSet", "gaRuleSet");
rs->fileName = "myActions.asl";

 

ga_Driver->ReadsRulesFrom = rs;
ga_Driver->SendsActionsTo = ga_RemoteServer;
ga_Driver->start();
}

Additional Information

Iit is possible to connect to multiple domains within a single Perl script using Smarts Perl API and invoking multiple "session" calls. If you need to connect to multiple domains using a single ASL, please contact EMC Smarts Professional Services.