Microsoft Platform Driver: Alarm for a missing row on the software table

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Is there a way to set an alarm template value to create an alarm if a specific IDX is not present in the table?

I am trying to set an alarm on the Software Info Table that would let me know what software is NOT installed on a given system.   This is to validate that the system has all of the correct software applications installed.

Marieke Goethals [SLC] [DevOps Catalyst] Selected answer as best 19th July 2023

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Hi Michael,

I believe an option could be requesting a driver feature to disable the auto-clear behavior in the Software Info table (similar to the toggle button Auto Clear Task Manager available in the Task Manager table). With this driver feature you could create an alarm template pointing to a specific index of the table and monitoring the column 'Row Status'.

Marieke Goethals [SLC] [DevOps Catalyst] Selected answer as best 19th July 2023
Wouter Demuynck [SLC] [DevOps Enabler] commented

While that would work to detect table rows that disappear, this won’t work for rows that have never existed. You’d need to have the driver add all of the possible software products you want to monitor using the rowstate deleted.

In general, there’s currently no way to create alarms on a table when a specific row does not exist.