RE: [Devmon] Starting problem

[Schwimmer, E. E *H. <EE...@hs...>]

Well, right now the results of any math calculations (via=20
DELTA or MATH transforms) done by Devmon are rounded to two
decimal places.  I might add a 'precision' tag or something
similar to either or both of these operations to allow you to
get more or less detail as needed.  Right now, if you have a=20
snmp alias that has excessive numbers after the decimal place,
you can lop them off by doing a MATH transform on the alias.
So, if you have an alias {tooManyNumbers} with a value of
11.324125, this transform:

{lessNumbers} : MATH : {tooManyNumbers}

will round it down to 11.32 and store it in the "lessNumbers"
alias.

Actually, I just had a thought;  what about making the MATH
and DELTA aliases not round at all, and then added a separate
ROUND transform or somesuch that would allow people to round
their values to whatever they liked?  That would probably be
the easiest way of implementing a round transform, but it
would also mean that all current templates would have to be
updated, as their rounding would go away.

-Eric Schwimmer
Network Engineer
UVA HSCS Network Engineering =20

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev...@li...=20
> [mailto:dev...@li...] On Behalf=20
> Of Whilding, Craig
> Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 9:47 AM
> To: dev...@li...
> Subject: RE: [Devmon] Starting problem
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> Oops, hadn't noticed the new version, have replaced the files and its
> working fine now cheers.
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> Just power, our cards don't have env abilities (I'm currently=20
> monitoring
> the Battery temp as a poor mans alternative).=20
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> Ah thanks, ill use that switch to avoid having to put the dhcp test
> under Windows PC defaults. The exceptions file will help me=20
> get around a
> problem I have with disabled ranges warning as they have no free
> addresses.
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> Im currently sorting my NetApp quota and vol templates and=20
> was wondering
> how I can display a number to 2dp for example.
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> Thanks for the excellent work.
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> Craig=20
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev...@li...
> [mailto:dev...@li...] On Behalf Of
> Schwimmer, Eric E *HS
> Sent: 06 March 2006 14:29
> To: dev...@li...
> Subject: RE: [Devmon] Starting problem
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> Regarding the 'ioctl' error; are you using the latest version
> of Devmon?  Specifically, line 1964 of modules/dm_config.pm
> should read:
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> if(defined($pid =3D fork)) {
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> as opposed to:
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> if(my $pid =3D fork) {
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> As to the power templates; the 9609 templates work on the APC=20
> 9617 card?  Both power and env?  If so, I'll copy them over=20
> (and thanks for letting me know :)
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> And autodiscovery of devices depends on their contents of=20
> the SNMP SysDescr.0 string; which is matched against the=20
> contents of the 'sysdesc' field in the model's specs file.
> You can override autodetection, however, by using the=20
> 'model' tag in the bb-hosts file;  please see the USING
> document for further info (if it isnt in there, please=20
> get the latest version of devmon).
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> -Eric
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: dev...@li...=20
> > [mailto:dev...@li...] On Behalf=20
> > Of Whilding, Craig
> > Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 8:24 AM
> > To: dev...@li...
> > Subject: [Devmon] Starting problem
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> > Excellent hobbit enhancement which will get rid of quite a=20
> > few Perl scripts when I've finished writing all the templates.
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> > =20
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> > I have been running it as a foreground process with the -f=20
> > switch but without this I am also getting "Can't fork:=20
> > Inappropriate ioctl for device" Forking to background process=20
> > *****". This is on RHEL3 again.
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> > For APC UPS's you may want to copy the power stuff over to a=20
> > model 9617 as this is what all my management card equipped=20
> > UPS's show as so it might be a popular one (?). They are 3000=20
> > and 5000 models.=20
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> > A problem I now have though is how devices are discovered as=20
> > a certain type. I have a script that monitors free dhcp=20
> > addresses on Windows boxes. If it just looks up model there=20
> > Is nothing special about this box. Im not sure how I can get=20
> > around this but I would need to put an exception in for all=20
> > other windows boxes I monitor so it doesn't try to show dhcp=20
> > free addresses for them.
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> > Keep up the good work though :-)
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> > =20
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> > Craig Whilding
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