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Lewis_Beard
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21 days ago

PropertySource best practices auto vs custom

I looked at our portal and the Exchange for PropertySource modules that might have a lot of the "universal" snmp OIDs because we want to pull some in for all snmp devices. Specifically sysLocation (....
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    Stuart_Weenig
    21 days ago

    Property sources can only set auto. properties. If you don't prepend the property name in the PS with "auto.", LM will prepend it for you. So unless you're talking about using the API to set the custom property, the PS will only ever give you an "auto." property.

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Lewis_Beard
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21 days ago

Good, glad to know. Appreciate the quick answer. I honestly prefer this to be an auto property. All our custom ones have been set manually or with the API and scripts. So good deal, that answered the question. Thank you very much! They should change that title of Johnny On-The-Spot to Stuart On-The-Spot. Much appreciated as usual.