Navisphere Command Line Interface (CLI) Reference - VMware Communities

Basic Commandsinserttestevent (not supported on AX4-5 series)Inserts an event into the event monitor log to let you verify theaccuracy of an event monitor templateDescriptionSyntaxPrerequisitesExampleThe naviseccli or navicli inserttestevent command inserts a dummyevent of code 0x2003 in the Navisphere Event Monitor event log. Theevent is code 0x2003 and its description is “Test Event - internal useonly.” The event is in the local event queue for processing.To verify that the monitoring agent will respond as specified (forexample, issue email, send a page) use the responsetest command.inserttestevent is used with naviseccli (described on page 37) ornavicli (described on page 45) as follows:inserttesteventFor naviseccli, you must have a user account on the storage systemon which you want to execute the command.For navicli, you must be able to log in to the host runningNavisphere CLI.naviseccli -h ss1_spa inserttesteventFor ss1_spa, this command writes a test event into the Event Monitorlog file.Note: To use this command with navicli, replace naviseccli with navicli.206 EMC Navisphere Command Line Interface (CLI) Reference