Re: [Devmon] Regex issue with thresholds

[Dan S. <rrd...@gm...>]

The table suggestion sounds good.  I upgraded to 0.3.1-beta1 last night so I
could take advantage of the INDEX transform.  With that, I can pull off the
OID name and put that in as the index for the table.

Thanks!

-dan 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Buchan Milne [mailto:bg...@st...] 
> Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 12:17 AM
> To: dev...@li...
> Cc: Dan Smith
> Subject: Re: [Devmon] Regex issue with thresholds
> 
> 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
>