[zenoss-zenpacks] Re: WindowsWMIDeviceTemplate ZenPack v2.0 has been published

[James Pulver]

Thanks for all the help! I have it working now, and it has been solid 
over the weekend. I think this should be the default Windows solution in 
Zenoss rather than Informant!

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James Pulver
Information Technology Area Supervisor
LEPP Computer Group
Cornell University



jason wrote:
> [quote="jmp242"]Hmmm, how do you unbind templates? [/quot]
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> Go to the Templates page and select the Bind Templates... menu item.  This will bring up the Bind Templates dialog which lists all the templates available to this Device Class/Device.  The ones that are bound are already selected.  You can select or deselect templates to set the bindings at this level.
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> [quot="jmp242"]How do you know if a template is 
> bound to a class or not?[/quot]
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> There are two ways.  You can bring up the Bind Templates dialog to see what is selected.  Alternatively, you can take a look at the zDeviceTemplates zProperty.  (That dialog is just a fancy gui for setting the value of the zProperty.)
> [quot="jmp242"]In my /NativePoll subclass, I only have a 
> checkbox for the Device_WMI_SNMP_v2 Performance Template. So I can't 
> actually change any of the other shown templates, to bind them or not.[/quot]
> The checkboxes are only shown for templates actually defined at that Device Class.  Without actually looking, I think this is for the delete and move menu items.  The Bind Templates dialog doesn't make any use of the checkboxes.
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> It's unfortunate that you can't determine template bindings just by looking at a Device Class's Templates page.  The Templates page for a Device is different, it shows only the bound templates and not any available templates that aren't bound.  This is a situation I'd like to make more sane in 2.2.
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> -jason
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