Creating a power supply alert to use Power Supply Description

I hope I am not trying to do the impossible here...

I am in the process of creating an ALERT that will trigger when a power supply goes from normal(2) to any other condition. I have the poller created and it is using snChasPwrSupplyDescription as the label for the table being displayed under Node Details.

What I would like to do is include this label in the ALERT message to make the notification via the Event Log and email more meaningful and descriptive. What I am having an issue with is finding the variable to add into the log and the email. I am able to use ${CustomPollerStatus.RawStatus} to put the current value of the power supply status into the log / email but nothing for the power supply description.

FOUNDRY-SN-AGENT-MIB::snChasPwrSupplyOperStatus.1 = INTEGER: normal(2)

FOUNDRY-SN-AGENT-MIB::snChasPwrSupplyDescription.1 = STRING: "bottom power supply"

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. I have struggled with alerts in the past when using custom pollers. It seems that the custom poller variables are difficult to pull from the database.

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

-Patrick

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mromeo

Use the Custom Property Editor and make a custom field called Description. Then in the alert use ${Node.Description} and when the alert is fired off it will fill in what ever you put in the description line.

Ex.

${NodeName}
${Node.Description}

Ex. Alert

UPS1
Bottom Power Supply

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mromeo

Ex.

${NodeName}
${Node.Description}

Ex. Alert

UPS1
Bottom Power Supply

ptopping

I checked the Custom Property editor and there is already a field called Description. It looks to be populated form the sysDescr OID in NPM 9.5.

But I don't think this is what I am looking for anyways. I need something that is dynamic and relates to the SNMP Get or the trap generated from the device. For example the power supplies in a BigIron 8000 are listed out like this:

FOUNDRY-SN-AGENT-MIB::snChasPwrSupplyDescription.1 = STRING: "bottom power supply"
FOUNDRY-SN-AGENT-MIB::snChasPwrSupplyDescription.2 = STRING: "middle bottom power supply"
FOUNDRY-SN-AGENT-MIB::snChasPwrSupplyDescription.3 = STRING: "middle top power supply"
FOUNDRY-SN-AGENT-MIB::snChasPwrSupplyDescription.4 = STRING: "top power supply"

I don't see any way to associate the information from the poll for snChasPwrSupplyOperStatus to the Power Supply Description. Am I missing something simple and stupid here?

FOUNDRY-SN-AGENT-MIB::snChasPwrSupplyOperStatus.1 = INTEGER: normal(2)
FOUNDRY-SN-AGENT-MIB::snChasPwrSupplyOperStatus.2 = INTEGER: normal(2)
FOUNDRY-SN-AGENT-MIB::snChasPwrSupplyOperStatus.3 = INTEGER: normal(2)
FOUNDRY-SN-AGENT-MIB::snChasPwrSupplyOperStatus.4 = INTEGER: normal(2)

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

-Patrick