Use XML data in a monitor

Hi Seftink--

I'm not sure if Orion can pull data from an XML file, but have you tried looking up the OID on Google? If it's a Cisco OID you are looking for, you can try looking at the Cisco MIB Locator.

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actually it's a Cisco IronPort. I'm trying to monitor the active messages in the mail queue. I have spoke with IronPort about it and they have confirmed there is no OID for it. They are the ones that suggested using the XML file

Seftink, we don't have a monitor in APM that will let you specify an XPATH or some other construct to retrieve a data value embedded within an XML file.

I'll add it as a feature request.

If you need that functionality today, you will have to write your own Visual Basic script to parse the XML file, locate and pull the mail queue number (example: 234) , and then send that number up to Orion APM in the form of a string:

"Statistic: 234"

See Creating a Windows Script Monitor

I have a simialar situation where the manufacturer Tandberg is moving towards xml for data values on their video codecs. If i have an xml file to pull from can someone point me into the path to retrieve that data and input into Orion. A sample would be great if available. Thanks in advance. alfred

Just adding my voice to the "who needs XML" discussion. We're being asked to monitor WAAS devices and much of what we need to pull for the customer is in XML rather than SNMP:

www.cisco.com/.../MG_XML_API.html

We are to running into situations where weed need to pull an xml interface for stats.  We are currently working on an APM script

Thanks

Request noted... thanks for the feedback.

Add me to the list of thread watchers for XML support.  I have Ironports and WAAS systems.  This would definately make my life easier.

Got it... thanks!

Was any progress made on this issue?