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message set

Set text/attributes of a dashboard message.

Syntax

message set <id> [<prop>=<val>*]  

Parameters

id

Message ID - must be in the form 'NNN<text>'

<prop>=<val>

Message parameters. The following parameters may be specified:

• severity - message severity, may be 'info' or 'alert'; default is 'info'
• text - printf-style message format string
• t_arg1... t_arg10 - Insertion strings for 'text' format string
• append - printf-style message format string to be appended to text or appended to existing text
• a_arg1...a_arg10 - Insertion strings for 'append' format string

Examples

message set 123BMC severity=info text="Failed to report metering data"
message set 123MSG severity=info text="Failed to start %s components on %t." t_arg1=2 t_arg2=1289607952  

Note:

• The format string specified for the 'text' and 'append' arguments may only specify '%s' and '%t' formats where '%s' is a string and '%t' represents a timestamp (seconds since epoch) that is to be converted to a date/time string and '%%' represents a '%' character.