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SteveBamford
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3 months ago
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Arista Campus Switch Power Supply State

We recently discovered that Arista Campus switches are either just not populating the OID for Power Supply states, or are using a different one, so in my API first approach to monitoring I decided to...
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    Joe_Williams
    3 months ago

    I understand that part but not why you wouldn't just put it in the appliesto?

    hasCategory("Arista") && startsWith(auto.endpoint.model,"CCS")

     

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Joe_Williams
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3 months ago

Looks good, but I do have a question. Why not include the model part in the applies to? That would prevent the wasted cpu cycles on the collector?

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    SteveBamford
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    3 months ago

    The main reason was that we will ultimately have a mixture of 24 and 48 port models that we will be supporting so rather than have to put each specific model in, which we would then need to maintain, it was simpler to say anything "CCS" (Campus Switches) would work.

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      Joe_Williams
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      3 months ago

      I understand that part but not why you wouldn't just put it in the appliesto?

      hasCategory("Arista") && startsWith(auto.endpoint.model,"CCS")

       

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        SteveBamford
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        3 months ago

        Ah ok sorry misunderstood, good suggestion will make the changes to the script.