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writing custom lookup for bitfield network port state

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I have read a very good article about decoding the port state on a linux system of a network bond. The informations are encoded as bitfield: https://movingpackets.net/2017/10/17/decoding-lacp-port-state/

BitName
0LACP_Activity
1LACP_Timeout
2Aggregation
3Synchronization
4Collecting
5Distributing
6Defaulted
7Expired

I want to write a custom lookup for this port states. But i do not know where to start. I read some article that was doing like:

<BitField state="Ok" value="1">No Alarm</BitField>
<BitField state="Warning" value="2">Far end LOF</BitField>

But in my lookup it should warn in several conditions of several bits on different positions. For example is bit 7 is set to expired (1) or when bit 5 is set to no (0). How to tell PRTG which bit position is meant?

bitfield custom lookup

Created on Jan 24, 2023 6:49:54 AM

Last change on Jan 24, 2023 8:43:37 AM by Felix Wiesneth [Paessler Support]



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Hello Dear customer

Thank you for contacting PRTG support,

Regarding your request, this manual will help you with this request Website you can instead of giving the bit position, you have to give the bit value (using 0), so 0 maps to 0, 1 to 2, 2 to 4, 3 to 8, 4 to 16, 5 to 32 and so on

I hope this will help

Created on Jan 27, 2023 8:20:10 PM by Ricardo Sanchez [Paessler Technical Support]




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