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Re: sysmon_envsys ENVSYS_INDICATOR state change reports



On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 12:24:33PM -0700, Paul Goyette wrote:
 > >Well, in the case of the BBU it would be better to display good or bad.
 > >ABSENT would be misleading, becase what we really want to report
 > >is that the BBU is present but bad.
 > 
 > I'm sure we could come up with dozens of pairs of values, GOOD/BAD,
 > TRUE/FALSE, PRESENT/ABSENT, CRITICAL/NORMAL, ...

They won't all be pairs either (e.g., ABSENT/DISABLED/ENABLED). You
want support for enumeration types... I haven't looked at the code at
all, but I'd expect it won't be all that difficult.

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David A. Holland
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