Possible to delay an EEM action?

Question

Hello, I am going to make use of EEM scripting to send to my ftp server some interfaces stats, I´m working with a cisco 3750. However, I´m seeing on event manager history events, that my EEM script (below) is aborted.I think that it might be owed to the fact that I write the data into a file, but writting the file takes too much time and action 4.0 is carried out before the file was available, so it cannot send it out marking the whole task as aborted. Therefore, I was wondering if I can trigger an new event from this event whose duty will be to send the file once it was completely written. May that be done within the EEM?? Or is there another way of stopping the execution of the action4.0 until the action 3.0 was achieved?
event manager applet dataGather
event timer watchdog name dataGather time 900
action 1.0 cli command "enable"
action 2.0 cli command "term length 0"
action 3.0 cli command "show interface vlan 1 | append flash:vlan1I.txt"
action 4.0 cli command "copy flash:vlan1I.txt ftp://myFTPServer/vlan1I.txt "
action 5.0 cli command "delete flash:vlan1I.txt"
Thanks in advance,
Regards!

Answer 1

Hi Juan
Usually the 'copy' commands & 'delete' commands would ask for the confirmation from the users(try to execute them manually).  Unless those confirmations are handled in the applet, it would not proceed the execution.  That should be the issue with your applet(already indicated by Joe).  There are two possible options.
      1) Without changing your applet, you can configure the box for - not to promt for any confirmation (conf t ->
file prompt quiet).  If you configure this CLI, the box will not ask for any confirmation from the users.  So, it would execute the commads in your applet.
       2) Other option which is suggested by Joe already. You should try the CLI commands manually and check for the additional queries / responses shown by the system for those CLIs.
         For example, if you delete a file 'ttt.txt', it is asking for the additional confirmations. 
                    0235-2900#delete flash0:ttt.txt
                    Delete filename [ttt.txt]?
                    Delete flash0:/ttt.txt? [confirm]
         To handle these additional prompts in the applet, the expected string has to be matched by your CLI execution line(Otherwise, it would not complete the operation). For the above case, you can try
                     action 7.0 cli command "delete flash0:ttt.txt" pattern "Delete.*"
                     action 7.1 cli command "ttt.txt"  pattern "Delete.*"
                     action 7.1 cli command ""
           The action 7.1 cli command "" is like sending a 'enter' key in a keyboard.