Custom file not being used by IP domain when called from /tmp folder

Products

• VMware Smart Assurance
• Network Observability

Issue/Introduction

• ASL-ERROR_FILE_OPEN-Could not open rule set '/tmp/foo.asl'. A custom driver import file had the following entries in it calling foo.asl, which is located in the /tmp directory.

         GA_Driver::APRR-SwitchStartPoller-Driver
    {
       ReadsRulesFrom = GA_RuleSet::APRR-SwitchStartPoller-RuleSet
            { fileName = "discovery/foo.asl" }
   
       ReadsInputFrom = GA_FileFE::APRR-SwitchStartPoller-FE
       { fileName = "discovery/foo.txt" }
       waitForCompletion = TRUE
       trace = TRUE

• Smarts IP is writing the following to the log files when the IP domain was started.

    [15-Feb-2010 14:58:55+352ms CET] t@-200279136 InCharge Framework
    ASL-W-ERROR_RULE_SOURCE-While executing rule set
        '/opt/InCharge/smarts/rules/import.asl'
     ASL-ERROR_ACTION-While executing action at:
     ASL-CALL_STACK_RULE-   RuleName: CALL_PARAMS, Line: 49
     ASL-CALL_STACK_RULE-   RuleName: CALL_OPERATION, Line: 34
     ASL-ERROR_INVOKE-While attempting to invoke operation 'start' of object
        'GA_Driver::APRR-SwitchStartPoller-Driver'
     ASL-ERROR_INIT_FRONTEND-While initializing front-end
     ASL-ERROR_FILEFE_OPEN-Could not open input file 'discovery/foo.asl'
     CI-ESPECP-While attempting to locate file with search path
        "discovery/foo.asl"
     <SYS>-ENOENT-No such file or directory

 

Environment

All supported releases of Smart

Cause

The custom file is not being used by Smarts IP when called from the /tmp folder.

Resolution

• The search path for the rule must made known to the env variable SM_SITEMOD.

• Add "/tmp" in the SM_SITEMOD.  

• SM_SITEMOD This variable provides a search list that InCharge software uses to locate files.

• This list is used to find files that users can, and in some cases must, modify to use InCharge at their site.

• Such files include configuration files, ASL rulesets, and scripts.

• The components of the list are separated by colons (:) on UNIX.

• The default value of SM_SITEMOD is BASEDIR/smarts/local:BASEDIR/smarts