API accept null value as UP

mrt3385

Hello, I've created an API poller to check the number of endpoints available for a given subnet. When the count of endpoints is 1 (bad), a value of device name is populated with the name of the offending device. When the value is 0 (good), the device name is null. When considering the status of the API poller, I would like to exclude the device name value (since it should be null most of the time) from the calculation. For example:

Count of Endpoints = 0

Device name = null 

This is fine

Count of Endpoints = 0

Device name = ponies

This is also fine. 

Count of Endpoints = 0

Device name = 2920dindn032012nond2kon2knw

Again, fine.

The reason I am capturing device name is to use it in an alert. Any idea how I can accomplish this?

adam.beedell

I dont believe you can at the moment, you can only back out defined predefined text. You can do this in SAM using any of the script monitors

I have been asking solarwinds for this, but I dont believe it stores historical text currently.