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Add more status to lookup gauge

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Hello,

I'm using a value lookup to represent Disk Status of my storage. Values can be from 1 to 8 I'd like to know it's possible to add state to this gauge. Actually we have :

Ok Warning Error None.

I'd like to create new one such as "Spare", "Offline", etc... And if it's possible how to define color schema for those new state.

color lookups state

Created on Jan 26, 2015 2:02:28 PM



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Hello,

you can create a custom lookup, as described here https://www.paessler.com/manuals/prtg/define_lookups.

hth Martin

Created on Jan 27, 2015 7:08:28 AM



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Hi I'm already using a value lookups as I said above and the problem is that we are limited to 4 states

Created on Jan 27, 2015 8:53:41 AM



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Hello again,

sorry for the misunderstanding, i fear there is no other way to define more states as the usual 4. Paessler Team, am I right?

hth Martin

Created on Jan 27, 2015 1:41:40 PM



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It's correct, only the 4 states are possible from lookups.

Created on Jan 27, 2015 2:19:56 PM by Torsten Lindner [Paessler Support]



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Hello!

Still no way to define more states?

Created on Feb 16, 2017 7:47:13 AM



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There are still "only" four types available:

  • SingleInt
  • Boolean
  • Bitfield
  • Range

It's not possible to define your own state definitions.

Created on Feb 16, 2017 8:54:33 AM by Stephan Linke [Paessler Support]



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I talk about that states: "Ok", "Warning", "Error", "None". :)

Created on Feb 16, 2017 9:11:09 AM



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Ah, nope - no new states here as well. What state are you looking for?

Created on Feb 16, 2017 9:56:09 AM by Stephan Linke [Paessler Support]



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Active/Standby for cluster devices. We have a lot of them and we want to color diffirentiate that state at a maps. Now we use "Warning" at Stanby, but that not right.

Created on Feb 16, 2017 10:22:21 AM



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We have some Cisco Cat6800 VSS clusters. And use SNMP sensors CISCO-VIRTUAL-SWITCH-MIB/cvs chassis/cvs chassis role (OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.388.1.2.2.1.2) with 3 states: standalone(1), active(2), standby(3). In our case (2) and (3) is OK status, but (1) is Error. We want use different colors for active and stanby custom objects at are map.
For example:

VSS

Created on Feb 17, 2017 4:58:54 AM

Last change on Feb 17, 2017 12:05:49 PM by Stephan Linke [Paessler Support]



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New states probably won't find their way into PRTG anytime soon, since the workload caused by new states is much more than adding new colors, unfortunately. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news here :(

Created on Feb 17, 2017 10:05:21 AM by Stephan Linke [Paessler Support]



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A good and simple option should perhaps to add in the lookup defintion a tag to specify the color in HTML coding. So we keep the 4 states, but we can modulate colors inside the same state.

Created on Feb 17, 2017 10:10:26 AM



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Hi Veg,

I see what you need. Talked to Luciano about it, but it's not possible to do this in PRTG as of now; sorry! :(

Created on Feb 17, 2017 1:06:02 PM by Stephan Linke [Paessler Support]



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It is sad. Perhaps in the future? :)

Created on Feb 20, 2017 5:49:07 AM



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Hm, due to low popular demand, don't get your hopes up :/

Created on Feb 20, 2017 7:41:35 PM by Stephan Linke [Paessler Support]




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