alarm command errors

This topic lists error messages for the alarm command.

See Common errors for a list of error messages that apply to all commands. See alarm command for information about command syntax and examples of command use.

Table 1. alarm command errors.

The error table is a multi-row, two-column table where each row describes a CMM CLI command error: column one lists the error reported by the command-line interface and column two describes what the error means.

Error message Definition
-clear, -ack, -unack, and -create must be used exclusive of each other A user tries to issue the alarm command with multiple options that must be used separately.
-clear, -ack, -unack, or -create request must be used with this command A user tries to issue the alarm command without specifying a command option.
-i (alarm id) is required when using -option option

where option identifies the command option.

A user tries to issue an alarm command option that requires an alarm ID without specifying an alarm ID.
Alarm Description must be enclosed in quotation marks. A user tries to specify an alarm description without enclosing it in double-quotation marks.
Invalid input. -i should have exactly 8 hex digits A user tries to specify an alarm ID that is not eight hex digits in length.
Invalid input -i: There must be all hexadecimal characters A user tries to specify an alarm ID that contains non-hexadecimal characters.