Smarts SAM: Attempted to access undefined key '47' in table 'notifFields'

Products

• VMware Smart Assurance

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:


Reviewing the SAM log in an environment with OI and Notif in place, there are many errors like this one in the log files:

[October 18, 2017 1:19:27 PM GMT+00:00 +402ms] t@93316864 SAM-IP-NA-RED_NL-Driver_6
ASL-W-ERROR_RULE_SOURCE-While executing rule set '/opt/InCharge9/SAM/smarts/rules/ics/ics-nl-processing.asl'
ASL-ERROR_ACTION-While executing action at:
ASL-CALL_STACK_RULE- RuleName: processNLNotifyV2, Line: 2504
ASL-CALL_STACK_RULE- RuleName: NL_DELETE_V2, Line: 507
ASL-CALL_STACK_RULE- RuleName: PARSE_MESSAGE, Line: 479
ASL-CALL_STACK_RULE- RuleName: START, Line: 455
ASL-ERROR_UNDEFINED_TABLE_KEY_ACCESS-Attempted to access undefined key '47' in table 'notifFields'
ASL-BAD_HASH_TABLE_INDEX-The index '47' is out of bounds

Environment

VMware Smart Assurance - SMARTS

Cause

This exception occurs when the logic searches for a device that has already been deleted from the topology.  The issue is cosmetic and doesn't interrupt normal operation of the SAM.

Resolution

Issue is cosmetic, however has been fixed in Smarts 9.5.