All,

There are templates being distributed in the general template package with a sysdescr of "Linux" (see dell-perc, for example). This just caused me to waste way too much time at one point trying to figure out why my custom template was not being matched properly... once I walked away and came back, I immediately realized that devmon was matching my Netgear ReadyNAS 1100 and STM-300 to the "dell-perc" template (the empty RAID columns should have tipped me off right away). When looked, the spec file was matching on "Linux". So too, does the compaq-server spec file.

I'm posting this as an awareness point for users, as I think it is kind of difficult to find any string more likely to be returned as part of a system description than "Linux". I also strongly recommend that devmon template authors use something else in their spec files to trigger device matches, and to think about the overall uniqueness of the strings they are using.

Regards, Thomas Leavitt