using values for index

[bigDan]

I'm trying to create an snmp query and I seem to end up w/ the last oid number in the string as the index. I'd imagine that it has something to do w/ the way it's parsing, but alas I have no knowledge of regex. I've searched around and looked at the interfaces.xml and still have no clue. I'm hoping someone could look at my xml wand tell me wtf I'm doing wrong.

<interface>
<name>Get CSS Content Flows</name>
<description>Queries a host for a list of monitorable content flows</description>
<oid_index>.1.3.6.1.4.1.2467.1.16.4.1.25</oid_index>
<fields>
<apCntByteCountIndex>
<name>Bytes Passed</name>
<method>walk</method>
<source>value</source>
<direction>input</direction>
<oid>.1.3.6.1.4.1.2467.1.16.4.1.25</oid>
</apCntByteCountIndex>
<apCntName>
<name>Content Name</name>
<method>walk</method>
<source>value</source>
<direction>input</direction>
<oid>.1.3.6.1.4.1.2467.1.16.4.1.2</oid>
</apCntName>
</fields>
</interface>

Thanks in advance

[bigDan]

bump

[BSOD2600]

What data would this script return, a string of text? Cacti/rrdtool needs numbers. Walk the OID index and paste the results.

[dgamble]

Holy, I was just working on this this week. Check out my "Poller does not get graph data for Data Query" post today for a working Arrowpoint Content XML Data Query! The Module XML in the post seems to be broken though, sorry!

The main issue is that the device uses "long" indexes with multiple elements. I use a regex to peel off the part of the OID that serves as the index. As a FYI, the "index" is a string of the content owner name, content rule name, and octets for the length of them.

Hope that helps!

[bigDan]

the last oid would return a string of text. sadly my cacti installation is broken right now and i have to wait for the admin to upgrade the installation before i can test any further. i'll revisit this after i test again after the upgrade.

[dgamble]

the last oid would return a string of text. sadly my cacti installation is broken right now and i have to wait for the admin to upgrade the installation before i can test any further. i'll revisit this after i test again after the upgrade.

No, you don't use the value of the OID. You use a piece of the OID itself to get the index. There are a few examples in the forum recently of people doing this, if you get stuck.