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Making a custom probe and sensor- # Making a custom probe and sensor

November 14, 2019 [servicenow](/tags/servicenow/)

  Enable AI AnimationThe other day I was trying to create a custom probe/sensor for a probe for our linux machines.

The only example I could find was to read a text file and make a ci based on that. That was not what I wanted.

I was specifically asking a program to tell me about its facts and I wanted to relate those details to the currently identified CI.

I couldnt remember how to do this;

Thankfully Rob G. pointed me in the right direction.

Created Probe to run the command `sudo `which factor` -pj`
- Created Sensor to respond to the probe
- Opened the Classifiers, and added the Probe to the Linux one
- Created a Test Discovery schedule so I could test the Probe & Sensor

Notes;

- `result.output` is going to be string output as its what’s on the shell that is returned. If it’s an object, you gotta parse it.
- `var serverGR = this.getCmdbRecord();` is the way I used to get the currently identified CI.

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