Re: [Devmon] optional oid

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

On Thursday, 23 June 2011 17:19:05 Johan Sjöberg wrote:
> 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

Yes, this problem exists with ProLiant servers as well, see compaq-server vs 
compaqs-servernohspare.

We can consider possible solutions for this. Possibly a flag on an OID in the 
message file to indicate that it is optional?

Regards,
Buchan