10.2 Entering Outages by JavaScript

JavaScript can be used to create outages via a client automation script or custom client operation. This can be useful when outage data is obtained from an external source, such as a service provider, on a regular or scheduled basis.

The following script snippet illustrates how a script automation can create outages based on alarm information. This script expects a start and end date as alarm columns (mDateTimeOpened and mDateTimeClosed) as these are required for a manually created outage. alarm is any alarm passed as a parameter when the automation script is executed. The element on which the outage is created is defined by alarm.element and is the affected element of the alarm.

rootorg="root=Elements";
formula.log.info("autooutage starts " );
dateformat="yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss";
var formatter=new java.text.SimpleDateFormat(dateformat);

ticketnumber=alarm.originating_event_id;
startdate=alarm.mDateTimeOpened;
try {
     startdated=formatter.parse(startdate);
} catch (Exception) {
     formula.log.error("Error parsing startdate " + Exception); 
     startdated=new Date();
}
enddate=alarm.mDateTimeClosed;
try {
     enddated=formatter.parse(enddate);
} catch (Exception) {
     formula.log.error("Error parsing enddate " + Exception); 
     enddated=new Date();
}

TTwhoPerform="AutomationOutager"; 
TTreason=alarm.msg;
TTreason="res:" + alarm.getField('Description');
myelement=alarm.element;

var alarmFields=new java.util.Hashtable;
alarmFields.put("myDate", new java.util.Date())
alarmFields.put("myOS", "Windows XP")
alarmFields.put("myID", "101")
var alarmFieldbyteArray = null    
var bos = new java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream();      
var oos = new java.io.ObjectOutputStream(bos);      
oos.writeObject(alarmFields);      
oos.close();      
alarmFieldbyteArray = bos.toByteArray();
      
var from = new java.util.Date()      
var to = from.getTime() + 100000
            
// (required) params[0] -> dname as string (required)
// (required) params[1] -> from date as long
// (required) params[2] -> to date as long
// (required) params[3] -> type as int (0 = GENERATED, 1 = SUPPRESS, 2 = OUTAGE)
// (required) params[4] -> reason as string
// (optional) params[5] -> extra alarm columns/values as serialized HashTable key/value pairs. 

try {      
  myelement.perform( session, "Create|Outage", [], 
       [myelement.getDName(), startdated.getTime(), enddated.getTime(), 2, TTreason, alarmFieldbyteArray ])
} catch (Exception) {
   formula.log.error("Error adding outage 1 " + Exception); 
   try {      
      myelement.perform( server.automationSession, "Create|Outage", [], 
             [myelement.getDName(), startdated.getTime(), enddated.getTime(), 2, TTreason, alarmFieldbyteArray ])
   } catch (Exception) {
        formula.log.error("Error adding outage 2 " + Exception); 
   }
}
formula.log.info("autooutage ends " + TTreason + " " +  alarm);