Variant types in SCOM
One of the items I have tried to have SCOM do is monitor network traffic on some of our routers/switches. The basics of this is fairly simple – create an SNMP monitor to poll on a set frequency and then store it as performance data. However I ran into issues with SCOM reporting that the variable type was wrong. The web site http://derekhar.blogspot.com/2007/07/when-using-script-based-monitors-name.html has a nice breakdown of what the variant types are when referenced by the MP.
- Empty = 0
- Null = 1
- Short = 2
- Integer = 3
- Single = 4
- Double = 5
- Currency = 6
- Date = 7
- String = 8
- Object = 9
- Error = 10
- Boolean = 11
- Variant = 12
- DataObject = 13
- Decimal = 14
- Byte = 15
- Char = 16
- Long = 17