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thanks for clarification and putting it on the list.

that was my guess too, thanks.

Is there a possibility to use windows environment variables in nxagentd.conf on windows nodes? So we could use one config-file for all windows nodes (32bit oder 64bit, English or different language). Especially %ProgramFiles% would be usefull.

We use NetXMS V1.2.13:

If you use 'Tools' - 'Shutdown System' for a linux node you get the following error (but the node is shutdown after that)
   'Execute action on node xy' has encountered a problem.
   Cannot execute action on node xy:
   Communication failure

On Windows nodes everything is fine: "Action System.Shutdown executed successfully on node xy"

I have collected a few smaller feature requests. Most of theme should be easy to implement:

1.
In Actions: a test possibility (like in Transformation scripts)

2.
In 'Actions Configuration' edit action: field 'Message text' bigger (more than 1 line) for better overview

3.
Possibility to display node custom attributes in 'Object Details' 'Overview' page. We use it for some inventory information.

4.
In Custom map: no possibility to unlink 2 objects (you have to delete one!)

5.
In Data Collection Configuration:, 'New parameter...': if you leave this dialog with 'cancel' a DCI is created anyway (an empty one).

6.
EventLog (View - Event Log): is unsorted if no sorting is selected. So most of time you have to set Ordering = Time descending. It would be convenient if 'Time descending' would be the default (but changable)

thanks
Dani

I just started to use the windows EventLog parsing and have some questions:

1.
I would like to have a quite generic parser which parses for all errors in system eventlog (all sources and all IDs). I managed that.  Than I would like to give the event-source and the event-id as parameters to NetXMS. But I only see the possibility to extract parameters out of the eventlog-description field (with regexp). In this field there are source and ID not available. I tried [<id>(.*)</id>], but that's not supported. Is there another possibility for such parsing? I can't make a rule for each possible source and each ID.

2.
I would like to parse for 'the previous shutdown was unexpected' events (source=EventLog, id=6008). But it's not possible. I suppose the agent starts parsing the eventlog when he starts up. But this EventLog-event is earlier (between system boot and start of NetXMS agent). Is there a possibility that the agent can also parse the events between system start and agent start?

3.
Is there a good website with ideas for EventLog-events which should be monitored? In some commercial network monitoring products are a lot of predefined EventLog events. Maybe someone knows a good source.

4.
What's the best solution to deliver the parser xml files to a lot of nodes?
thanks
Dani

Hi Victor

Have you already found some time to check this?

thanks
Dani

Thanks Victor. I know this in templates. I just thought there could be a similar possibility directly in DCIs of a node.

Is it possible to use macros and/or scripts in the 'Parameter' field of DCIs? I could use it with subagents. Otherwise everything must be implemented in transformation scripts. That would be a litlle bit confusing if you only need things like node-name oder node-IP.

Thanks for the background information Victor.
Good to know that network services are a little bit depresciated. So I will build up everything with DCIs.

thanks Victor.
I think that should be an easy extension

I have a conceptual question:
What exactly are the advatages of network services? Is using DCIs (Origin=NetXMS Agent) with the NetXMS server as the proxy node not more flexible? So you can use the huge flexibility of ExternalCommands. In network services you can't use custom schedule (yes, on the corresponding service status DCI you can). And a very important disadvantage in my opinion: In templates you can't define network services for nodes (and so you can't use instance discovery either).

Maybe I overlook a few advantages of network services.
Thanks for any help.

I miss the 'comments' tab on DCI objects for internal documentation purposes. I like to document things directly in the application and not in out-dated Word-documents. In nodes and maps objects there is already a 'comments' tab.

We have a few VPN connections between our sites. So I set up the VPN connections between the internet gateways using the old legacy console (the VPN connectors are still not available in the java console). These connectors are now shown in the java console under the gateway nodes (as object class 12 but without icon in the object tree).
But I think these connectors are not used in IP topology maps (I also set the discovery radius of the map to 10). But the map shows no VPN-connection. When I use 'IP neighbours' on one of the internet gateways I never get another gateway as IP neighbour (inspite of the VPN connectors set up in the legacy console). Do I have a misconfiguration or is there some code broken?
Current Version of NetXMS: V1.2.13.

The agent crash problem with custom ports in network services is fixed in V1.2.13. I have tested. Thanks.