[Devmon] x vs. *

[Simeon B. <sbe...@mc...>]

I've been working on templates for the Cisco Pix (525), IBM remote service 
adapter II, and baystack 42x, and I'm impressed at how devmon handles so much of 
the grunt work of handling SNMP data. I do have one pet peeve, however. Without 
thinking, I had used '*' instead of 'x' in a MATH transform and it took some 
time to realize why it wasn't working. Another unexpected effect of this 
behavior is that if an oid name contains a lower-case x it is converted to the 
multiplication symbol '*', leading to all kinds of errors (eg: {FooMa*} + 
{Ma*Bar}). Could it be possible to remove that 's/x/*/g' in dm_tests.pm and just 
use the intuitive, and non-[a-zA-Z], '*'? Would this break something (besides 
legacy templates) that I'm not aware of? I'm thinking mainly of cutting out the 
potential list traffic that will arise out of the confusion caused by these 
unexpected side effects.

PS: Once I've ironed out some kinks, I expect to post the aforementioned templates.

Thanks,

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Systems Engineer
Mcclatchy Interactive