Dynamic Template

[Liran]

Hi all,

Im trying to create a template for windows services. my idea was to crate a template that have 8 iteams that ready to receive MACRO from the host.
for exemple:
in the host macros : {$service1} = DNS
in the tempalte: service_state[{$SERVICE1}]
but the problem that if i dont have a marcos for the service it's just run <service2,3,4,5,6,7,8> and then give me some error.
i know i can disable the item. but i don't want to this all the time.
Is it possible that the template will know when there is no service# in the macros to disable automatically the item?

I hope it was clear enough

Thanks

[jamesNJ]

One idea:
Set a system wide marco {$service}=BAD
Then in your template trigger use a formula like this to suppress error triggers
{$service}<>"BAD" AND service_state[${service}]=0
Trigger should only fire if the expression is true, and it won't be true if the item is inheriting the default system-wide macro setting instead of your host specific setting.

Just a suggestion ... I haven't tried this myself ...

[Liran]

Hi james,
It sounds like a great idea,
But I can not create the trigger

i tryid:
{Windows Services:service_state[{$SERVICE8}].last(0)}>0 and
{Windows Services:{$SERVICE8}}<>"NotActive"

[jamesNJ]

I think my error there is that trigger expressions must evaluate to numbers, not stings.

So given that, make your global macro be a number like 1991 and then compare directly against that value. I tested something similar and this worked for me. I set a global {$TEST} macro to be 1991 and then a host macro {$TEST} to be "firefox" and then used an expression to look for my agent ping: "firefox" doesn't evaluate to 1991. So given your example try something like:
global macro {$SERVICE8} = 1991
host macro {$SERVICE8}="process-name"

{$SERVICE8}<>1991 and {Windows Services:service_state[{$SERVICE8}].last(0)}=0

So that reads, trigger if $SERVICE8 is not 1991 (hence a host-based macro with process name is set) and if the desired windows service is not running.