On Sun, 26 Aug 2012, David Holland wrote:
On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 12:24:33PM -0700, Paul Goyette wrote:
> >Well, in the case of the BBU it would be better to display good or bad.
> >ABSENT would be misleading, becase what we really want to report
> >is that the BBU is present but bad.
>
> I'm sure we could come up with dozens of pairs of values, GOOD/BAD,
> TRUE/FALSE, PRESENT/ABSENT, CRITICAL/NORMAL, ...
They won't all be pairs either (e.g., ABSENT/DISABLED/ENABLED). You
want support for enumeration types... I haven't looked at the code at
all, but I'd expect it won't be all that difficult.
For multi-value indicators, we have ENVSYS_INTEGER. Coupled with the
ENVSYS_FMONSTCHANGED flag you can get notified whenever the value
changes.
The existing code is a total nightmare, and really needs a complete
redesign. Until that happens, adding new sensor/notification behaviors
is generally quite messy.
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