Custom Poller data in Reports or System Manager?

Question

I'm currently evaluating v8.5.1 of NPM.  I setup a couple of Custom Poller's to pull in some extra SNMP data from a collection of networking devices -- a numeric value and a text string.  I have figured out how to make that data visible in the Web Console, but only one property at a time; I'd really like to build a table with the following columns all visible at once:
    Device Name
    Numeric Value
    Text String

I haven't figured out how to expose these custom poller values in the Report Writer, which would seem like the most obvious place to do this.

Could anyone point me in the right direction?

kproth · Answer

Apparently we downloaded our eval copy when 8.5.1 was still the latest.  The eval period is not yet expired, so it sounds like we'll want to upgrade quickly, and see how well the new Univ Dev Poller works for us.  The overview (thanks for the link) looks pretty nice, but I'm still a little unsure of how easily I'll be able to combine multiple raw-value data points for multiple devices into a single table.

mark_wiggans · Answer

.and be sure and check out the V9 UnDP tutorial www.solarwinds.com/.../index.html

FormerMember · Answer

How are you evaluating v8.5.1?  If you download the eval, the current version is 9.0.  The different is relevant because custom poller in 8.5 was replaced in v9.0 with the new (and much improved) Universal Device Poller.