How to use OID-value in CustomField

Minollie · April 29, 2011, 10:34am

Hi all,

I want to know the following:

For ease of maintenance we would like to be able to list all our switches in the Device panel with lots of info about the switches…
There you see the Flag/Name/Address/Mac/Type and Maps listing of the devices.. There is an option to add CustomField 1/2/3 to that listing..
Now I would like to be able to paste the OID of the serialnumber of our switches (which is OID: 1.3.6.1.2.1.47.1.1.1.1.11.1) in CustomField 1.
I hoped the list with Devices, sorted to Type Switch and enabled with Customfield1 would now display something like:

SW-000-000-AA-01, 10.10.10.10, 00-11-22-33-44-55, Switch, Location01, Serial abcd0123

To accomplish this I entered the oid in the field of CustomField1 as following: [oid(“1.3.6.1.2.1.47.1.1.1.1.11.1”)] and I also tried it with oid(“1.3.6.1.2.1.47.1.1.1.1.11.1”)
But.. when I list my devices, add Customfield1 as column name it displays: [oid(“1.3.6.1.2.1.47.1.1.1.1.11.1”)] or oid(“1.3.6.1.2.1.47.1.1.1.1.11.1”) instead of the serial abcd0123 (or whatever).

So, by displaying the exact string in this field I can’t accomplish what I want to..
It also doesn’t work the way I want when I add this oid to the notes list, simply because that is also displayed as oid and not the returned value.

Anybody with good options/solutions or tips/tricks??

I’m currently trying this with Dude 3.6, I’ve got 4b3 also running and behaving badly too..

Thanks in advance for any help given. If it’s not yet possible I would really like this to be added as feature in future releases.

Best regards,
Minollie

gsandul · April 29, 2011, 12:37pm

Anybody with good options/solutions or tips/tricks??

I have solution, and this is not a trick

Label code:

[Device.Name]
[oid(device_property("CustomField1"))]

lebowski · April 30, 2011, 2:34am

Gsandul is great at the dude…

Minollie · May 2, 2011, 9:33am

Hi guys..,

Sorry to say so, but that’s not what I want..
Showing OID values within the labels is sort of an ease if you ask me..

The first screenshot shows the Device-settings of the switch I’m trying to get this info from.
I’ve nice and smooth added the OID in the CustomField1 including the normally used notation with the Dude (as in: preceeded with oid etc).

The second screenshot shows the Devices-panel which I was talking about, including the sorting properties I decided I want to have.
Here you can see that in the column of CustomField1 an OID is returned instead of it’s value (what would have been the serial here..)

Yet this way of configuring doesn’t return the wanted information as I hoped it would.
Am I doing something entirely wrong or am I doing things right but without the result I hoped for??

Please help.. (not begging yet though.. )

Best regards,
Minollie