4. Processing a Monitor Result Output

Once a Monitor instance is created in the PATROL Console, you can process the result output to retrieve specific information or to detect the presence of strings or numeric values that should or not be present.

Prior to perform analysis of a Monitor's output, you may have to pre-process the data in order to make it manageable by the search/extraction tools. Typically, the usual procedure consists in:

•	Pre-Processing the Monitor Output

•	Split the Monitor Output

•	Analyzing the Monitor Output:

▪	Searching for a specific string

▪	Extracting a numeric value

▪	Mapping Values

The features described in this chapter are exclusively available for the following Monitors:

•	Command Line (SEN_MS_COMMANDLINE)

•	Database Query (SEN_MS_DBQUERY)

•	Dynamic Instance (SEN_MS_DYNAMIC)

•	File (SEN_MS_FILE)

•	Multi-Parameter Formula (SEN_MS_FORMULA)

•	Nagios Plugin (SEN_MS_NAGIOSPLUGIN)

•	PSL Command (SEN_MS_PSLCOMMAND)

•	SNMP Polling (SEN_MS_SNMPPOLLING)

•	Text Pre-Processing (SEN_MS_TRANSFORM)

•	WBEM Query (SEN_MS_WBEMQUERY)

•	Web Request (SEN_MS_WEBREQUEST)

•	WMI Query (SEN_MS_WMIQUERY)