Re: [Devmon] Regex issue with thresholds

[Buchan M. <bg...@st...>]

On Thursday, 3 February 2011 21:01:20 Dan Smith wrote:
> Are regular expressions supported in the OID name in the thresholds file?

No.

> I guess I was trying to be lazy, but I've got data aliases defined like
> this:
> # Power down=0 up=1
> AbcPEM48VoltAPowerSupply :  .x.x.x.x.x.x.x.x.x.x.x.1.0  : leaf
> AbcPEM48VoltBPowerSupply :  .x.x.x.x.x.x.x.x.x.x.x.2.0  : leaf
> AbcPEM5VoltAPowerSupply :   .x.x.x.x.x.x.x.x.x.x.x.3.0  : leaf
> AbcPEM5VoltBPowerSupply :   .x.x.x.x.x.x.x.x.x.x.x.4.0  : leaf
> AbcPEMHot5VoltPowerSupply : .x.x.x.x.x.x.x.x.x.x.x.5.0  : leaf

This data would have better been supplied in a table IMHO, in which case you 
would have only needed one set of thresholds.

> And I would like to apply the same up/down green/red threshold to
> all...something like this:
> AbcPEM.*                    : red           : =0            : PSU is
> currently DOWN
> AbcPEM.*                    : green         : =1            : PSU is
> currently UP
> 
> When I do that, devmon throws this error:
> [11-02-03@13:54:06] Undefined oid 'AbcPEM.*' referenced in
> /usr/share/devmon/templates/System-Abc/chassis/thresholds at line 8
> [11-02-03@13:54:06] Undefined oid 'AbcPEM.*' referenced in
> /usr/share/devmon/templates/System-Abc/chassis/thresholds at line 8
> 
> I can't imagine a more simple regular expression than ".*", so am I correct
> that the regular expression support does not apply to the data alias.
> The TEMPLATES file talks about regular expressions in thresholds, but I
> think it is saying that they can be used only in the VALUE portion.

Correct.

Regards,
Buchan