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Hey, Morgan! In your original post, you mentioned doing this in a transform instead of externally?  I'm going to recommend going the external route.  If your transform is taking the field of components from the parent event, then generating between 1-50 ...

¯\_(ツ)_/¯    ... when you google something and find yourself asking the same question a year earlier. ------------------------------ Morgan Timney The Southern Company Birmingham AL ------------------------------

Hi Larry I paste my tool box tool answer here . Cheers ------------------------------ Arthur ------------------------------

Hi Larry I don't have any bad experiance wiht the Zenoss Toolbox tool in V5/6. They runned as expected and fixed the failures they found. The link I used in the past was https://support.zenoss.com/hc/en-us/articles/203118075-How-to-use-zencatalogscan-to-scan-fix-broken-catalog-references ...

Thanks! Will let you know what I find out. ------------------------------ Larry ------------------------------

Hi Larry Thanks for you replay. I've attached my basic idea how to achieve this. It uses the fact, that the current directory is mountent into the conatiner under /mnt/pwd. I had some issues to get the correct environment if I switch to the zenoss user. ...

Hi Arthur,    Thanks for the latest tip! It worked! The upgrade works for our DEV installation but fails on PROD. Some of the ZenPacks display a status of "missing" or "broken" after the upgrade. I'm trying to fix any data integrity issues first, as ...

What is the correct way to run the Zenoss Toolkit on Zenoss 6? We have a Zenoss 6.2.1 install (Community) on a single node. We followed the directions here, but it seems the "fixes" weren't persistant. https://help.zenoss.com/zsd/RM/updating-resource-manager-to-release-6-4-1/using-zenoss-toolbox/zenoss-toolbox-tools ...

Hi Arthur,    Thanks for your message. We made a lot of progress and *almost* have this working. We have a minor glitch though. We're using this method: https://help.zenoss.com/zsd/cc/command-line-interface-reference/serviced-script Thanks, ------------------------------ ...

Richard, It sounds like the good and bad traps are running through the same event class mapping.  You could fix this by adding a transform to the mapping to set your good traps to the clear severity.  This will prevent them from deduping and will instead ...

Thanks Jane Knowing about Good & Bad traps, to clarify a bit, nothing is clearing the Zenoss events via Clear method. What happens, is vmware will send an alert about a disk full, If I'm fast enough, I can see the trap. Later a cpu gets busy, ...

Hi Richard, You might go and get my paper on   Zenoss Event Management   that describes the event subsystem architecture and has lots of examples.  It was written for Zenoss 4 but nothing significant has changed in the event architecture with Zenoss ...