log messages displayed in a map

Hello Daniel,

Thank you for the quick reply. I managed to coble together a much more basic map object with a few hours work, but your's is much more friendly to more then a single sensor so its got alot more uses.

One thing I found with both your sensor and the one I was working on is that when I place a file named "tableX.htm" in the folder, the map designer gets confused and instead of showing the correct name from the first line of the code, just copies the name of the sensor that loaded alphabetically before it. In this case it was the tablechannels.htm sensor that it borrowed the name from, though the actual code for the object was correct, just makes them harder to find.

My solution was to just put them in the Custom HTML group which doesn't seem to have this same issue. I'm guessing it is just a bug in my PRTG 8 version, possibly fixed in PRTG 9 I just haven't upgraded yet.

In case others are interested, here's the code I created to display the messages of a sensor, with 500 messages listed, good for using with Syslog and Event log sensors.

Best regards,

Jonathan

<!--Custom HTML: Sensor Messages-->

<div class="map_object map_table" id="<@itemid>" objectid="<@objectid>" subid="<@subid>" style="overflow:auto;<#mapobject type="coordinates" subid="<@subid>" mode="<@editmode>">">
<#mapobject type="objectgrip" mode="<@editmode>">
<#mapobject type="htmlbefore" subid="<@subid>">
<#checkobjecttype objecttype="sensor" nicemessage="true"  id="<@objectid>">

<div class="top10listcontainer" style="overflow:hidden;background-color:#fff;">
<b><#objectproperty name="Name" id="<@objectid>"></b>
<#table tableid="messagestable"
        id="<@objectid>"
        content="messages"
        columns="datetime,message"
        sortby="datetime"
        sortable="false"
        links="false"
	count="500"
        >

</div>
<#mapobject type="htmlafter" subid="<@subid>">
</div>

Jonathan, just a "tip" 500 is a very high message count in this case, and can lead to serious performance issues (as PRTG has to load these 500 messages from hard-drive every time), especially if you have several sensor which use this map-object.

Hi, this custom object shows the Log Messages of Syslog. Is it also possible to show the incoming messages(Syslogmessages) from any device on the map (Top10List). When it's possible, what i have to change?

Daniel

Hello Daniel,
thank you for your post.

This is not possible I'm afraid, even the solution proposed here is already a workaround and not officially supported.

Best Regards,
Luciano Lingnau [Paessler Support]

The custom object, only shows logs messagens of the sensors, not the syslog messages.

Thank you for trying to help us.

I am also in the process of creating a special map. And found these comments. I also want to output syslog messages. Is there meanwhile a possibility to output them?

Hello Lina,

syslog or trap messages cannot be showed on the map. The reason is that those messages are not stored on the core server, instead on the remote probes. That means that standard tables have no access to that data. The sensors use a special table which is not available for the map editor.