Hi,
I am using an OID that returns the string values "complete", "in-progress", and "pending".
I have tried to play with the SNMP Custom String sensor but I cannot make it run.
Can someone please help me with this ? In the end, I would like this sensor to show a gauge with 3 states.
Thx in advance
Cyril
Article Comments
Hello Cyril and thank you for your KB post.
The "correct" sensor for this case is the SNMP Custom String Lookup sensor. As you mentioned, these are the "possible" outputs of the OID that you are monitoring:
| complete |
| in-progress |
| pending |
First of all, we need to tell PRTG what the possible outputs are. For this, we need to create a slightly different lookup that will look like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ValueLookup id="prtg.custom.string.progress" desiredValue="0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="PaeValueLookup.xsd">
<Lookups>
<SingleInt state="Ok" value="0">complete</SingleInt>
<SingleInt state="Warning" value="1">in-progress</SingleInt>
<SingleInt state="Error" value="2">pending</SingleInt>
</Lookups>
</ValueLookup>
Once you have created and stored the lookup, go to Setup | System Administration | Administrative Tools in the PRTG web interface and click Load Lookups and File Lists. Then go back to the device in PRTG and deploy the SNMP Custom String Lookup sensor. When adding the sensor, select the previously created lookup from the list.
The sensor will show a gauge to which it will map the 3 possible states via the lookup. If there are more possible states, they have to be added within the <Lookups> tag in the .ovl lookup file.
More
Further information regarding lookups:
Other SNMP-related topics:
Best regards,
Luciano Lingnau [Paessler Support]
Sep, 2016 - Permalink
Hi,
Would this script work if the vallue is actually a string, not just one numeric vallue?
What I'm trying to achieve is to read the firmware version of a given device that returns a string: 10.28. build 7676.
Can I build a lookup where I know all my possible firmware versions and have PRTG show them in the channel?
Thanks,
Attila
Mar, 2022 - Permalink
Hello Cyril and thank you for your KB post.
The "correct" sensor for this case is the SNMP Custom String Lookup sensor. As you mentioned, these are the "possible" outputs of the OID that you are monitoring:
First of all, we need to tell PRTG what the possible outputs are. For this, we need to create a slightly different lookup that will look like this:
Once you have created and stored the lookup, go to Setup | System Administration | Administrative Tools in the PRTG web interface and click Load Lookups and File Lists. Then go back to the device in PRTG and deploy the SNMP Custom String Lookup sensor. When adding the sensor, select the previously created lookup from the list.
The sensor will show a gauge to which it will map the 3 possible states via the lookup. If there are more possible states, they have to be added within the <Lookups> tag in the .ovl lookup file.
More
Further information regarding lookups:
Other SNMP-related topics:
Best regards,
Luciano Lingnau [Paessler Support]
Sep, 2016 - Permalink