Example of ASL script to set EventText

The following example ASL script extracts the substring "Agent Restarted for Reason:" from the contents of a trap’s first varbind and places the remaining string into the notification attribute EventText. In the script, a list of all of the input and output variables as well as the input-only variables precedes the start of the processing (START). Generally, only the variables used by the script need to be declared.

/*
 * The first variable binding is a string of the form:
 *  "Agent Restarted for Reason: <text to extract>"
 */
// Input/Output variables.
CLASSNAME = "";
INSTANCENAME = "";
EVENTNAME = "";
SEVERITY = "";
EVENTTEXT = "";
CATEGORY = "";
EXPIRATION = "";
STATE = "";
INMAINTENANCE = "";
CLEARONACKNOWLEDGE = "";
EVENTTYPE = "";
ELEMENTCLASSNAME="";
ELEMENTNAME="";
USERDEFINED1 = "";
USERDEFINED2 = "";
USERDEFINED3 = "";
USERDEFINED4 = "";
USERDEFINED5 = "";
USERDEFINED6 = "";
USERDEFINED7 = "";
USERDEFINED8 = "";
USERDEFINED9 = "";
USERDEFINED10 = "";
DISCARD_TRAP = "FALSE";
// Input Variables
TIMESTAMP = "0";
IPADDRESS = "";
ENTERPRISE = "";
GENERIC = "9999";
SPECIFIC = "9999";
V1 = "";
V2 = "";
V3 = "";
V4 = "";
V5 = "";
V6 = "";
V7 = "";
V8 = "";
V9 = "";
V10 = "";
V11 = "";
V12 = "";
V13 = "";
V14 = "";
V15 = "";
V16 = "";
V17 = "";
V18 = "";
V19 = "";
V20 = "";
START {
 PARSE_EVENT_TEXT
}
PARSE_EVENT_TEXT {
 input = V1;
 ..  "Reason:"  EVENTTEXT: rep(word)  eol
}

The processing of the trap’s first varbind occurs in the rule PARSE_EVENT_TEXT. The input to the rule is the contents of the first varbind. The line after the input reads all text up to and including "Reason:". The rest of the string is assigned to the variable EVENTTEXT. Any change to the value of the input/output variables automatically gets placed in the corresponding attribute in the translated Service Assurance notification. For more information about ASL, refer to the VMware Smart Assurance ASL Reference Guide.