Event triggering – VBrick Systems 7000 User Manual

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Event Triggering

You can create and run scripts to activate certain functions on a VBrick appliance. There are
two ways to run scripts on an appliance. (1) You can run scripts for test purposes using the

Run Script

button in VBAdmin or (2) you can use an external event trigger (see "Event

Triggering" in the VBrick Appliance Getting Started Guide) to run a script. There are four
event trigger scripts, with fixed names, that can be created and stored in flash memory in the

/scripts

folder. You write your own scripts and associate them with the file names shown

below.

The VBrick appliance can be set up to use serial (COM) Pins 7 and 8 as input events to
trigger the appliance to run scripts. The script files execute a subset of the CLI commands
(

SVAR

and

WAIT

) in order to activate specific functions on the VBrick appliance. There are a

total of four possible input events (COM Pin8 Low, COM Pin8 High, COM Pin7 Low, COM
Pin7 High) associated with four different scripts. The script file names cannot be changed.

•

/scripts/com1Pin8LowEventScript.txt

•

/scripts/com1Pin8HighEventScript.txt

•

/scripts/com1Pin7LowEventScript.txt

•

/scripts/com1Pin7HighEventScript.txt

Run Scripts Using VBAdmin

You can run scripts using the

Run Script

button in VBAdmin. This button is only available in

Edit

mode and is basically used for test purposes. See Sample Script below. Note that you

cannot execute a script using an event trigger if VBAdmin is currently running in

Edit

mode.

If you run a script directly from VBAdmin, it automatically exits

Edit

mode and terminates

the active editing session.

General Config Log
Local

Stores the log of user initiated configuration changes traps locally
within the unit. The log file will wrap after 20 events.

General Config Log
Remote

Sends the log of user initiated configuration changes to an external
server.

Script Config
Log Local

Stores the log of script generated configuration changes locally
within the unit. The log file will wrap after 20 events.

Script Config
Log Remote

Sends the log of the log of script generated configuration changes to
an external server.

System Event Log
Local

Stores the log of system events locally within the unit. The log file
will wrap after 20 events.

System Event Log
Remote

Logs systems events to an external server.

Remote Event Log
Destination

Unicast IP address of remote event log server.

Note Do not confuse Event Trigger scripts with User Function scripts. User Function

scripts are associated and run with the (F1–F4) buttons on the appliance front panel.
See Front Panel on page 11 for more about User Function scripts.