Re: [Devmon] different templates for hardware reporting identical sysdesc

[Jeremy L. <jla...@re...>]

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 9:24 PM, Buchan Milne <bg...@st...>wrote:

> > oid-exists : tcpConnLocalPort.127.0.0.1.25.0.0.0.0.0
>
> To identify a server with a running MTA? What would the value here be?
>

I might want to create a template that's specific to my mail servers.  For
instance, I might want to count/graph the number of MTA-type processes,
perhaps alarming when the number drops to zero.

Or, for a different port, I might know that only my HP RHELv5 servers are
running HPOV software brand listening on port 55123, and on that basis, I
know that they're HP Linux servers rather than any other type of Linux
servers.

These aren't very good examples, and I'm not suggesting that they would
actually get used as they are, but I think the flexibility to do this kind
of thing by testing OID existence/value would be a useful way to prevent
template collisions.

Cheers
Jeremy