Wow, i completely neglected to flip the problem around and deal with it in snmp (at least for the time being). The percentage thing will work... the only unfortunate thing is that I won't be able to see the integer/count value in the alert itself; but it is better than nothing!
As far as the problem you have encountered; exec/extend only produce string output to an oid which has some of the problems you noted when used within zenoss. This is why I am using 'pass' in snmpd to define a type (integer, counter, etc.) to get around this limitation. NateBell wrote: > Yeah, I'm stumped by what syntax is allowed in a lot of these fields. > Something like here.totalBlocks seems like a useful variable to have, but I > don't see it documented anywhere so it's not clear what other variables are > available. > > If you have any control over the data being sent through the OID would it be > possible to turn these values into a percentage before Zenoss picks them up? > A bit of a hack. > > As for setting a threshold for a custom OID, I too have run into problems > (http://community.zenoss.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3309&highlight=) . As far > as I can tell, this sort of stuff should be possible, but either there is a > bug in the code, or I'm doing it wrong. Either way the people with the > answers don't seem to be here, or no one knows. > > If I ever do find an answer, I'll do my best to broadcast it on this forum. > > Nate ------------------------ Kyle Goedtel -------------------- m2f -------------------- Read this topic online here: http://community.zenoss.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=11630#11630 -------------------- m2f -------------------- _______________________________________________ zenoss-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users
