This probe was written by ex-CA collegue: Gijsbert Wiesenekker some years ago, but this probe is so clever and multi-functional that I want to share it.
This probe can execute commands and turn the output into QoS messages and/or alarms.
The logmon probe can do this too, but the logmon probe gives you no control over the source and target for the Qos messages and the source of alarms, you cannot publish floating point values and the alarm expression is limited to simple comparisons only.
For example, if you want to query the read- and write-latency of multiple Netapp devices using the native Netapp rsh command-line interface you cannot use the name of the Netapp device as the source for the QoS message or the alarm.
This probe allows you to do so.
Probe_cmd makes it possible to create QoS metrics with your own ci_type and metric_id, so that they will be correctly usable/displayed in UIM Operator Console.
Note: the zip file contains doc file & probe zip file.
Once the probe is deployed the probe directory contains the original readme.pdf file
The Perl file should work without problems on Linux robots, here it's compiled and tested under Windowws 2019.