NetXMS Support Forum

Is there a way to retrieve the "Comments" property of a DCIObject?

Essentially I'd like to add some support information to the comments section of a DCI, that is also then included in emails that are generated for alerts against that DCI.

As a test I tried the following:-


sub main() {
node = FindObject("SomeNode");
dciID = FindDCIByName(node, "SomeDCIName");
dciObj = GetDCIObject(node, dciID);
println(dciObj->name);
println(dciObj->comments);
}

However it errors on the comments attribute line, and certainly the https://wiki.netxms.org/wiki/NXSL:DCI page does not list a "comments" attribute (but there is one on the node object https://wiki.netxms.org/wiki/NXSL:Node)

I've had a look through the script reference pages, but I can't see any functions to enable me to query it - does anyone know of a way to do so?

Otherwise I guess I would need to use a custom attribute.

Simon

First, I just want to say what an excellent product NetXMS is, thanks to everyone involved in making it what it is today.

Now on to the issue I am experiencing, I am having a problem with scripting in that global variables do not appear to be working correctly (or I am misunderstanding how to use them, which is possibly more likely).

I am defining a global variable in the following way:-

global GlobalStringConstant = "String Value";

However when I try to reference the global variable in functions, all I get is a NULL object.

To test this I created a script in the script library called "TestScript" with the following code:-


global GlobalStringConstant = "String Value";

sub main() {
typeofValue = typeof(GlobalStringConstant);
println "Type:-";
println typeofValue;

println "Value:-";
println GlobalStringConstant;
}


Then in the server console, when I issue the command "exec TestScript", I get the following output:-


Type:-
null
Value:-


INFO: Script finished with rc=0


Where I was expecting the output:-


Type:-
string
String Value
INFO: Script finished with rc=0


I am running the current development version 2.0-M2 with the 64bit binaries running on a Windows Server 2008 R2 virtual machine which is connected to a Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 backend database.

Any assistance anyone can offer would be very much appreciated.

Thanks!

Simon