Well, event transforms are Python scripts, so if you can get it in Python, you can use it. So you ought to certainly be able to do what you want. This, by the great Jane Curry (jcurry on the forums) will explain all sorts of useful things about events: http://www.zenoss.com/Members/jcurry/zenoss_event_management_paper.pdf/view
See especially 2.3.6, Database Insertions on page 18-19 for what you really have to do. One thing, in 2.2.4 where I was doing some of this munging for event clearing, summary is supposed to be used, but didn't seem to be for me, I just dumped it into eventKey... -- James Pulver Information Technology Area Supervisor LEPP Computer Group Cornell University nxumdon wrote, On 2/12/2009 4:29 PM: > Hi > So in an attempt to fix an issue with Zenoss not alerting on quickly fired > events, and now running into an issue where Zenoss is just incrementing the > counter, and after reading all I can on event de-duplication, I can't seem to > find any real advice, other than 'look up earlier post on event > de-duplication'...which I can't seem to find any really good info on. The > problem is that one device may send the same msg a number of times and it > only gets alerted on once unless someone is manning the console and moves it > to the history. So, can I somehow change my event transform to inject a > unique value, say the time of the event or a serial number, something, > anything, to make this unique and thus alert on EVERY time. > > Thanks very much for your help with this, I'm at a total loss. :( Thanks > again. > > > > > -------------------- m2f -------------------- > > Read this topic online here: > http://forums.zenoss.com/viewtopic.php?p=31254#31254 > > -------------------- m2f -------------------- > > > > _______________________________________________ > zenoss-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users _______________________________________________ zenoss-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users
