Working with custom properties, SNMP, reports, and the universal device poller.

I'll try and keep this painlessly short:

I'm trying to keep track of certain SNMP variables on my nodes - two of which are the chassis serial number and the chassis model number. I've created universal device pollers for both and they seem to be pulling in that information just fine.

My problem is that I can't seem to figure out how to incorporate this data into a report. I need to generate a hardware table that contains a lot of information in each nodes' custom properties. I want to incorporate the information from these custom pollers into this report, but I don't see how to pull that information from the Solarwinds database.

Is there any way to generate a report with a mix of node custom properties *and* universal device poller responses? If I could populate the custom property fields with the results from the universal device pollers, that would be easiest.

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mmelton

Report Writer really doesn't like reports with multiple UnDP's. And I don't think Orion has the capability of turning a UnDP status into a Custom Property.

nding

Halfy,

You can try out the following and modify it further until it is close to your requirements:

1. Log into Report Writer

2. (Click) "New" to create a new report

3. Select "Current Status of Nodes, Interfaces, etc."

* Note: Not "Current Status of Nodes, Volumes, etc."

4. Navigate to the "Select Fields" tab and configure the following:

Select the following fields

Field: NodeID sort: * function: *

Field: Node Name sort: * function: *

Field: <Custom Property> sort: * function: *

Field: Poller Name sort: * function: *

Field: Row ID sort: * function: * --- can be omitted if the UnDP is NOT a TABLE

Field: Status sort: * function: *

NodeID, NodeName and Custom Property are under "Network Nodes" branch (on clicking the asterisk * )

Poller Name, Row ID and Status belongs to "Custom Pollers (Current Status)"

5. Navigate to "Filter Results" and add in filters to help narrow the results.

If you are trying to reduce the report to just showing the chassis serial number, and chassis model number UnDPs, you will have to change:

FROM: Select records where ALL (default) of the following apply

TO: Select records where ANY of the following apply

E.g.

Select records where ANY of the following apply

Records where Poller Name is equals to <UnDP1>

Records where Poller Name is equals to <UnDP2>

6. For some of the fields, I have added to help you have a visibility of the statistics returned.

To hide them from the report, but to still have them run in the backend, you will have to navigate to "Field Formatting" tab

(Click) on the field, and just tick the "Hidden Field" check box, and you are done.

Note that only those with UnDP assigned, and with values - then will the report show them up.

You might notice that if you uncheck the following in the "Select Fields" you might see more information showing up:

Poller Name

Row ID

Status

HTH.