Re: [Devmon] optional oid

[Johan S. <Joh...@de...>]

Yes, that works fine if you want to exclude a test completely. But sometimes it is just that some OIDs are missing. Like for Dell servers where newer servers have some stuff that can be monitored on the RAID controller that is not present on the older models. In that case I don't want to have different column names for the different raid tests

/Johan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Finegold [mailto:gol...@gm...]
> Sent: den 23 juni 2011 05:35
> To: dev...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Devmon] optional oid
> 
> An alternative to separate templates is separate columns. You could
> dedicate a column to CPs (e.g "cp" or "ha"), then use something like
> DEVMON:tests(diag,if_load,if_stat) to avoid including your additional test.
> 
> I use this technique for two of my hosts (Dell PowerEdge) that don't have
> RAIDs (they use "tests(fans,power,temp)").
> 
> IMO, it usually is better for alerts/history/graphs to have more granularity,
> particularly if they can fail independently or not uniformly supported. I
> personally feel it was bad judgement for the APC templates to combine
> temperature and humidity (which have different units) into one "env"
> column, when other devices (e.g. Cisco 6509, Dell PowerEdge, Compaq
> server) have a distinct "temp" column.
> But maybe I'd feel differently if I had at least one humidity sensor
> somewhere, or had a non-APC device with an env column.
> 
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 00:39, Johan Sjöberg
> <Joh...@de...> wrote:
> > I have only been able to solve this by creating separate templates for the
> different devices. But maybe there is a better way.
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Stef Coene [mailto:ste...@do...] I want to monitor
> some
> >> Brocade fiber channel switches.  Some of them have high avaible CP's.
> >> So only some of them have the corresponding oids.
> >>
> >> If I add the oid to the message file, the switches who don't have
> >> this oid are reporting this ('Missing repeater data for CPLastEvent
> >> for status msg') and no update is send to xymon.
> 
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