Cisco Element Manager System

Document ID: 25049

Questions

• Why does the transition of some auto discovered managed objects fail? Why are they reported as having an unknown state? How can I fix this?

Q. Why does the transition of some auto discovered managed objects fail? Why are they reported as having an unknown state? How can I fix this? (Products affected : CEMF 3.0.x, 3.1)

A. When objects are created using the Auto Discovery tool, the state attribute value is not set. As part of the object creation participation process, the Controller (via State Manager) attempts to add newly created managed objects to the appropriate state machine, using the initial state value of these objects. Since auto discovered objects do not have their state value set, State Manager uses the default state defined in the state machine file.

If a default state is not defined within the state machine configuration file for an object class, then that object is not added to a state machine but is still created. All state transitions fail on such objects, and the GUI reports their state as unknown.

The following is an example of a state definition within a state machine config file. The key word, DEFAULT_STATE, marks this state as the default for the class of object associated with this machine:

        STATE_DESCRIPTOR
                 NAME    decommissioned
                 DEFAULT_STATE
                 TASK
                         NAME    DecommissionTask
                 END_TASK
                 ALARM
                         ALARMCLASS      technologyAlarm
                         ALARMDESC       testdesc
                         ALARMSEVERITY   minor
                 END_ALARM
                 OSI_MAPPING
                         OSISTATE        EnabledIdleUnlocked
                         OSIALARM_STATE  Minor|AlarmOutstanding
                         OSIPROC_STATE   Reporting
                         OSICEMFAIL_STAT   InTest|LogFull
                         OSISTDBY_STAT   ProvidingService
                         OSIUNKNOWN_STAT False
                 END_OSI_MAPPING
         END_STATE_DESCRIPTOR
 

State machine configuration files for objects that can be discovered using the Auto Discovery tool should have a default state specified as described above. This prevents auto-discovered objects being added with no state attribute value.

CEMF-SDK generated state machine configuration files have the decommissioned state marked as the default state (as described above). However, you must ensure that the appropriate classes of object have a default state marked in their configuration files.

Related Information

• CEMF Knowledge Base