Can you use a web table for a non table poller?

I created several pollers for monitoring an OTV link between two Cisco nexus switches. I initially created them as table pollers and set the format to enumeration which gives you all of the great return values provided by the Cisco MIB. This also allowed me to use tables on the web so my network team could easily see the status of the various OIDs I setup polling on.

I then tried to create an alert for one of them (Specifically 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.810.1.2.1.1.4 - cotvOverlayVpnDownReason) and was not able to get the enumerated value to return in an email. Only was I able to do this by changing the poller to 'get next' type. However when doing that, you lose the ability to create a table and instead are forced to use a Chart or a Gauge!? Charts or gagues make no sense when you want to simply display a value of an OID to the web. I know, I know, I can create duplicate pollers where one I use for alerting and the other I use for web display, but then I'm polling my devices twice, taking up solarwinds resources etc, etc...

Am I doing it wrong? Is there a way or another way to display a table for a poller that's not a table poller? (Was I alerting on the table poller wrong?)

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mesverrum

The ones that show up as "1 value" are table pollers, in this case they only have one item on the table though so converting them would probably be fine on this node, can't say for sure that would apply to other nodes.

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mesverrum

Try this, customize the view you want this data to show up on and add the Universal Device Poller Status resource. That displays the enumerated values of all the pollers assigned to that device. There are also a lot of other more complicated ways to get what you want done but hopefully this gets you what you want to see with minimal fuss.

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ryan.davis26

Thank you for the suggestion. I will see about trying that and report back; sounds easy enough!

ryan.davis26

So I added the "Universal Device Poller Status" resource however which looks good however there isn't any way to customize it. Most of the pollers show "1 value(s)" under the current status column with no other way of seeing what that value actually is.

I'm curious what your "more complicated" way is?

mesverrum

So I looked over your original question and realized i may have been getting off into a bit of a tangent here, your root problem was that you couldn't get the enumerated values to show up in an email on a table poller, correct? First I would confirm that the OID you are working with is properly enumerated in the UnDP tool. Edit your custom poller, expand Show Advanced Options, make sure the format is set to enumerate and click Map Values to check that it has the values you wanted to see.

Assuming that all checks out then the numbers should be replaced by the text strings on any of the custom node table resources next time the poller updates and you should be able to pull that value into an email by just using ${N=SwisEntity;M=Status} for your variable.

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ryan.davis26

No worries. I think I could've bottom lined my question a little better. I think I should have said my root problem was that I couldn't get or key off of enumerated values from a Table poller. (I am able to get the enumerated values, regardless if I use Get Table or Get Next from within the UDP Test function.) I initially wanted Get Table because then I could display the values quite neatly on the UDP page of the device. Then when I tried to create an alert based on a value change of the returned value, I could not get the value out of the Get Table poller and thus key off it for alerting. Havent really re-visited this yet because as soon as I changed it to a Get Next poller I was able to key off of the value changing. Maybe I needed to look at a row; I'm not really sure but Get Next works, so I suppose that's what I'm sticking with for now.

Here is a screenshot of adding the "Universal Device Poller Status" as a resource to the UDP page of the device. You'll see what I'm talking about with the "1 value(s)" thing