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"A specified parameter was not correct." while creating alarm

Hi,

I am trying to create an alarm on the powerState of the VM using the gSOAP C++ generated interfaces. while running the code, I get the soap fault:

SOAP 1.1 fault: "":ServerFaultCode[no subcode]
"A specified parameter was not correct. "

The code I've written is as follows:

/* 

* Function to create alarm on the power state

* of the VM

*

* @param managed_obj_ref of the VM

*/

vSphereStatus vSphereUserAPI::create_power_state_alarm(ns1__ManagedObjectReference *vm_mor) {


  /* Creates State Alarm Expression */

  ns1__StateAlarmExpression state_alarm;

  string red_state = "poweredOff";

  state_alarm.operator_ = ns1__StateAlarmOperator__isEqual;

  state_alarm.type = "VirtualMachine";

  state_alarm.statePath = "runtime.powerState";

  //state_alarm.yellow =

  state_alarm.red = &red_state;

  ns1__AlarmExpression alarm_expression = (ns1__AlarmExpression) state_alarm;

 

  /* Creates Alarm Setting */

  ns1__AlarmSetting alarm_setting;

  alarm_setting.toleranceRange = 0;

  alarm_setting.reportingFrequency = 0;

 

  /* Creates the Alarm Spec */

  ns1__AlarmSpec alarm_spec;

  alarm_spec.name = "alarm123";

  alarm_spec.description = "Alarm to detect the powered off state of the VM";

  alarm_spec.enabled = true;

  alarm_spec.expression = &alarm_expression;

  //alarm_spec.action =

  //alarm_spec.actionFrequency =

  alarm_spec.setting = &alarm_setting;

 

  /* Creates the Alarm */

  ns1__CreateAlarmRequestType create_alarm_req;

  create_alarm_req._USCOREthis = new ns1__ManagedObjectReference();

  create_alarm_req._USCOREthis = service_content->alarmManager;

  create_alarm_req.entity = vm_mor;

  create_alarm_req.spec = &alarm_spec;

 

  _ns1__CreateAlarmResponse create_alarm_res;

  if (binding_proxy.CreateAlarm(&create_alarm_req, &create_alarm_res) == SOAP_OK) {

    cout << "\nCreateAlarm successful!" << endl;

  } else {

    binding_proxy.soap_stream_fault(std::cerr);

    return SOAP_ERROR;

  }

  delete create_alarm_req._USCOREthis;

  return STATUS_OK;

}

Kindly guide me into this.

Thanks in advance.

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