Automated Periodic Processing of Existing Alarms

Products

• VMware Smart Assurance
• Network Observability

Issue/Introduction

Does Smart provides any built‑in feature that allows the frontend (SAM Console) to automatically run at regular intervals and perform operations on existing alarms without requiring an event action such as notify, clear, or update?

Environment

All supported releases of Smart

Resolution

• Check if Escalation policy in Smarts helps.

• You can also make use of OS-Level Scheduling (cron) with dmctl i.e. you can write a lightweight shell or Python script that runs on a strict schedule via Linux cron. The script can use the dmctl utility to query the SAM domain for existing alarms (e.g., querying the ICS_Notification class instances) and immediately execute the required operations (invoke, put, etc.) on the matches.