Serverscheck leak poller

I have a ServersCheck sensor gateway with two leak sensors connected. The SNMP-polled OID for each sensor returns a text value of either "DRY" or "WET"...really simple. I've created the pollers (one for each sensor) and the alarm which sends email and SMS...and these work fine. However, I want it to display something on the Orion node details web page for the sensor gateway, displaying either "WET" or "DRY" just like the OID returns. However, I can't seem to figure out how to work with text values; I have no trouble working with a numerical value (like a chart or a gauge for temp, humidity, etc.), but can't seem to figure out how to display the returned text value.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks!

-Mike

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tallyrich

Have you looked at: c:\Solarwinds\NetPerfMon.Gauges

I'm thinking you could (make a backup copy of the file first) choose a gauge from there and change the values. It appears - it's an XML file by the way - that be default the different parts of the gauge pull from system variable, but you could probably change the variables for the actual text that you want.

Could be worth a try.

tallyrich

Problem solved

Use a linear gauge and "Manually" add labels

priam

Richard, thanks that solves *part* of the problem.

The other part of the problem is that my poller doesn't return a numeric value (like 0=dry and 1=wet) that a gauge can use. The poller returns the *strings* "WET" or "DRY" and the gauge doesn't know how to use those. I think either my poller needs to be able to transform WET to 1 and DRY to 0 before delivering the results to the gauge...or the gauge needs to be told how to interpret the string values.

And I don't know if either is possible as it's outside my Orion skillset...

priam

Thanks, I just had a look at it. It looks a bit complex, but seems it's designed to work with a numeric value, not a string value. I've also sent an email to the ServerCheck folks to see if I can poll for a numeric value instead of a string. If so, then that'll work well with Orion.

tallyrich

I was working with pollers for my APC UPS devices and noticed that the output does the same thing. What I found is that if you edit the Universal Device Poller - on the first page there is an advanced option (about the middle of the first page - sorry, don't have access to my machine at this moment). Expand that and look at the type. For the APC it was showing as Enumerated - open that and you'll see where it shows a number in the left column and the text in the right. If that is what is happening you may be able to change that text in the table, or change the type to raw where you should get the number value rather than the text or you could possibly build a Transform and convert it back to a number. Let me know if this doesn't make sense to you and I'll get screen shots - also, if you could post the OID that you are point to, I can look at it from that point as well.