Thanks for the response. I hear what you are saying about date compares, but it seems like Observium is already manipulating the response. I say this because the string in the UI, it says:

Diagnostics Results (last 2022-10-10) ok

But the actual returned string from the device via SNMP:

# snmpget -v2c -c [redacted community] [redacted host name] .1.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.1.7.2.4.0 iso.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.1.7.2.4.0 = STRING: "10/10/2022"

I think what I am saying is, observium doesn't seem to be handling it as an arbitrary value.

From: Adam Armstrong via observium observium@lists.observium.org Sent: Monday, October 10, 2022 11:03 AM To: Alex Rubenstein via observium observium@lists.observium.org Cc: Adam Armstrong adama@observium.org Subject: [Observium] Re: APC UPS Monitoring

The only way to do this would be to create a probe that fetches the value and does the calculations on it. You could likely do this in PHP or python or whatever.

You could also create a custom status indicator that extracts this in PHP, but the probe might be easier.

Imagine trying to write a UI to extract an arbitrary value from a text string and then do date matching on it!

adam.

Alex Rubenstein via observium wrote on 2022-10-10 15:59:

One of the status indicators on APC UPS's is "Diagnostic Results." It is shown as:

Diagnostics Results (last 2022-10-10) ok

I am looking to set up an alert where if the last diag date is more than N days ago, alert me. But since the date is somehow wrapped into the status name, rather than the status result, I am not sure how to do this.

Any pointers?

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