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Hi,

I have a server that provides an XML status page indicating if given components are UP or Down.

I have built a custom EXE Sensor to run a power shell script that scrapes this page and return a JSON Chanel for each of the components status. This works by converting the text status to a binary (1 if active, 0 if not) and then returning this value in the channel with a LimitMinError of 1...

However this all seems overly convoluted to display a binary result, when all we want to know is if the channel is up or down. Again, the Graphs that display the result in PRTG don't make sense when we only want to know up or down.

Is there a simple way that I can process binary channels within PRTG ? There must be a better way that this convoluted mess.

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Created on May 24, 2017 4:35:33 PM



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Hi there,

The best way is to create a look up by following this guide: Define Lookups.

You can also try the following method: Monitor and "Lookup" a SNMP String value.

Best regards.

Created on May 25, 2017 12:50:59 PM by Dariusz Gorka [Paessler Support]




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