I have been trying to create appropiate Alarms for Custom pollers I've setup on different kinds of devices but I can't get it to work properlly. Finally I tryed to create reports and filter the result with similar conditions as I would the Alarms them self and I found the cause of the problem.
For Example I've configure custom polls for APC Environmental units to read Temperature and Humidity. Everytime I try to enter a 2 digits number as a condition no result will show up. if I use a condition between 0 and 9 then results for Humidity display properlly (all currently 1 digit numbers). Temperature readings behave even more extrangelly, If I try to fillter by value "9", then they will only display when condition is "less or equal" concidering that all temp readings are currenly between 68 and 75 I pressume that the problem is that NPM is only taking in concideration the first digit of the status read and then comparing it to the single digit condition I'm using. Like I say, If I try to use 2 digits as a filter condition for "Status" it will not work.
I've alreay try to change the Data type selection on the "Custom Poller" configuration from Text to None and that did not work.
Am I defining the poller incorrectlly? Any tips would be very appreciated.
Thanks