OneSight Administrator Guide

Global Metric Manager
1 – the Virtual Agent uses the second value it matches to
compare against the configured component. If a match is found,
the first match is returned as the metric to OneSight.
Refer to the examples at the end of this section for information on
how the perl expression and the key index should be configured to
correctly extract a value.
Command Procedure – Select the state machine containing the XML
for running a complex command. This is useful, for example, when
you want to run a different command depending on the output of a
previous command. Refer to “Configuring State Machines,” in
Chapter 5 for more information.
Configuration Example 1
The user has a Linux system with the following components (―/‖
and ―.sys‖) defined for the file system. The command that is to run
is df –a and the output is as follows:
File
System
1Kblocks
Used Available Use% Mounted On
tmpfs 498792 213176 285616 43% /
proc 0 0 0 - /proc
sysfs 0 0 0 - /sys
devpts 0 0 0 - /dev/pts
usbfs 0 0 0 - /proc/bus/usb
The following are defined in the Metric Editor:
Command: /bin/df –a
Perl Expression: /\S+\s+([0-9]+)\s+[0-9]+.*\S+\s+(\S+)/
Key Index: 1
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